Helen Loney
Archaeologist
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Helen Loney is an archaeologist specialising in the study of prehistory. She has worked as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Glasgow (1996–2007), the University of Worcester (2007–2022), and the University of Oxford.[1] Loney has a number of roles with archaeology societies, working on the council of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and taking on editorial roles with the journal Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
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| Born | San Francisco Bay Area |
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| Thesis | The Development of Apennine Ceramic Manufacture: Xeroradiographic Analysis (1995) |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
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Early life and education
Loney was born in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] She studied a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating magna cum laude in 1983. She went on to complete a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, finishing in 1995 with a doctoral thesis tiled The Development of Apennine Ceramic Manufacture: Xeroradiographic Analysis.[1][3] Loney later emigrated to the UK.[2]
Career
Loney worked as a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow between 1996 and 2007, before moving to the University of Worcester for the start of the 2007/08 academic year as Principal Lecturer.[4] In 2008/09, Loney and Andrew Hoaen received funding to radiocarbon-date material recovered during fieldwork at Matterdale.[5] In 2013 wrote the book Social Change and Technology in Prehistoric Italy, based on her PhD thesis. It was published by the Accordia Research Institute, and a review by Bob Chapman for the Prehistoric Society described it as a "welcome [addition] to the literature on later Italian prehistory".[6] She is a course tutor in archaeology at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education,[7] and Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the University of Worcester.[8]
In 2022 she was appointed Chair of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society[9][10] and council member of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.[11][12] The following year Loney took on the role of editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology, working initially with Cait Scott and then Lara Band, before working as sole editor from 2024.[13] She has also served as a member of the editorial board for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.[1]
Selected publications
Books
- Loney, Helen L. (2013). Social Change and Technology in Prehistoric Italy. Accordia Specialist Studies on Italy. Vol. 16. Accordia Research Institute. ISBN 978-1-873415-39-9.
Articles and chapters
- Loney, Helen L. (2000). "Society and Technological Control: A Critical Review of Models of Technological Change in Ceramic Studies". American Antiquity. 65 (4): 646–668. doi:10.2307/2694420.
- Loney, Helen L. (2003). "Themes and Models in the Development of Italian Prehistory". Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 15 (2): 199–215. doi:10.1558/jmea.v15i2.199.
- Loney, Helen L.; Hoaen, Andrew W. (2005). "Landscape, Memory and Material Culture: Interpreting Diversity in the Iron Age". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 71: 361–378. doi:10.1017/S0079497X00001067.
- Hoaen, Andrew W; Loney, Helen L. (2005). "Bronze and Iron Age connections: memory and persistence in Matterdale, Cumbria". Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 4: 39–54. doi:10.5284/1064645.
- Loney, Helen L. (2007). "Prehistoric Italian Pottery Production: Motor Memory, Motor Development and Technological Transfer". Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology. 20 (2): 183–207. doi:10.1558/jmea.v20i2.183.
- Hoaen, Andrew W.; Loney, Helen L. (2007). "Cairnfields: understanding economic and ecological practice during the Bronze Age of Central Britain". In Cherry, P. J. (ed.). Studies in Northern Prehistory: Essays in Memory of Clare Fell. Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. pp. 189–210. ISBN 9781873124444.
- Hoaen, Andrew W.; Loney, Helen L. (2013). "Excavations of Iron Age and Roman Iron Age levels at a settlement in Glencoyne Park, Ullswater, Cumbria". Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. 10: 93–102. doi:10.5284/1064109.
- Loney, Helen L.; Hoaen, Andrew W.; Ruffle, Bob (2020). "History and archaeology of the St Wulstan's Hospital site, Malvern Wells". Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society. 27: 133–143.
- Loney, Helen L.; Hoaen, Andrew (2023). "Porcelain waste and porcelain production in Worcester: the landscape evidence from fieldwalking". Post-Medieval Archaeology. 57 (2): 268–290. doi:10.1080/00794236.2023.2252136.
