Helen Loney

Helen Loney is an archaeologist specialising in the study of prehistory. She is a course tutor in archaeology at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education. She has previously worked as Principal Lecturer in Archaeology and Heritage Studies at the University of Worcester (2007-2022) and as Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow (1996-2007).

Loney has a number of roles with archaeology societies. In 2022 she was appointed Chair of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society and council member of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology. She has also served as a member of the editorial board for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.

Education
Loney 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.

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. In 2008/09, Loney and Andrew Hoaen received funding to radiocarbon-date material recovered during fieldwork at Matterdale.

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".