Frances M. A. Healy FSA is a British archaeologist and prehistorian, specialising in the British Neolithic 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 and Cardiff University, where she has been an honorary research fellow since 2007.^[1][2]

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.^[2] 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".^[2][3]

In 1990, Healy was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).^[4] 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".^[1]

Selected works

• 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.
• Whittle, Alasdair; Healy, Frances; Bayliss, Alexandra (2011). Gathering time: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781842174258.