Frances M. A. Healy is a British
archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
and
prehistorian
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...
, specialising in the
British Neolithic
The Neolithic British Isles refers to the period of British, Irish and Manx history that spanned 4000 to 2,500 BCE. The final part of the Stone Age in the British Isles, it was a part of the greater Neolithic, or "New Stone Age", across Eu ...
and
lithic technology. She has worked for Norfolk Archaeological Unit,
English Heritage,
Wessex Archaeology, and
Oxford Archaeology. She has been a
research associate at
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
and
Cardiff University
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, where she has been an
honorary research fellow since 2007.
Healy studied internation relations at the
London School of Economics and Political Science, graduating with an
upper second class honours Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1965. She then undertook a
postgraduate diploma in
prehistoric archaeology at the
Institute of Archaeology,
University of London, which she completed in 1967.
On a part-time basis she undertook research for a
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at the Institute of Archaeology, which she competed in 1990 with a thesis tiled "The neolithic in Norfolk".
In 1990, Healy was elected a
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).
In 2020, she was awarded the
Grahame Clark Medal by the
British Academy "for her distinguished achievements involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology, with a particular focus on the British Neolithic".
Selected works
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Roger Mercer and Frances Healy, 2008, ''Hambledon Hill, Dorset, England: Excavation and survey of a Neolithic Monument Complex and its Surrounding Landscape, Volume 1'', English Heritage Archaeological Monographs.
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References
External links
Archaeology Data Service entry
British archaeologists
British women archaeologists
Prehistorians
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Alumni of the UCL Institute of Archaeology
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