Catherine Hills
{{short description|British medieval archaeologist}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Catherine Mary Hills
| employer = University of Cambridge
| known_for = Early Medieval Archaeology
}}
Catherine Mary Hills is a British archaeologist and academic, who is a leading expert in Anglo-Saxon material culture. She is a senior research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/directory/ch35|title=Dr Catherine Mary Hills — Department of Archaeology|website=www.arch.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-19}}
Education
Career
She was appointed as a lecturer in Cambridge in 1977 in the Department of Archaeology.{{Cite journal|last=Hills|first=Catherine M.|date=June 2012|title=Women archaeologists in 20th-century Britain. Response to Rachel Pope|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/women-archaeologists-in-20thcentury-britain-response-to-rachel-pope/152B143317E8945BF793AD3B32FB3DA2|journal=Archaeological Dialogues|volume=19|issue=1|pages=75–80|doi=10.1017/S1380203812000116|s2cid=162705685 |issn=1478-2294}} Previous to that she was a Field Officer for Norfolk Archaeological Unit.{{Cite book|title=The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham. Part I: Catalogue of cremations, nos. 20-64 and 1000-1690|last=Hills|first=Catherine|publisher=Norfolk Archaeological Unit|year=1977|isbn=|location=Gressenhall|pages=}} Hills was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1978.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sal.org.uk/about-us/fellows-directory/?fs=Hills&page=1|title=Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries|website=www.sal.org.uk|access-date=2019-07-19}} She was a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/person/dr-catherine-hills/|title=Dr Catherine Hills|website=Newnham College|access-date=2019-07-19}}
Hills was closely associated with the excavation of the early Anglo-Saxon cremation cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Norfolk, where she directed excavations from 1974 until the completion of excavations in 1981.{{Cite book|title=Spong Hill IX: Chronology and Synthesis|last1=Hills|first1=Catherine|last2=Lucy|first2=Sam|publisher=McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research|year=2013|isbn=|location=Cambridge|pages=1}} Hills' post-excavation analyses of this major site led to substantial contributions in the fields of early Anglo-Saxon archaeology, particularly regarding burial and migration,{{Cite book|title=The Origins of the English|last=Hills|first=Catherine|publisher=Duckworth|year=2003|isbn=|location=London|pages=}} and more recently the chronology of the 5th century.
She presented the Channel 4 series The Blood of the British.{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/854977136|title=The Making of Channel 4|last=Catterall | first = Peter | author-link = Pippa Catterall | date=2013|publisher=Taylor and Francis|isbn=9781135018870|location=Hoboken|pages=150|oclc=854977136}} She was Vice-President of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2017-2022.{{Cite web|url=https://medievalarchaeology.co.uk/the-sma/sma-council/the-council/|title=The Society for Medieval Archaeology {{!}} List of Officers and Council|access-date=2019-07-19}}
Selected publications
- Hills, C. (1979). The archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England in the pagan period: A review. Anglo-Saxon England, 8, 297-329. {{doi|10.1017/S0263675100003112}}
- Hills C.M. (1986). The Blood of the British. London: George Philip
- Hills C.M. (2003). Origins of the English. London: Gerald Duckworth and Co. Ltd.
- Hills, C. (2007). History and archaeology: The state of play in early medieval Europe. Antiquity 81(311), 191-200. {{doi|10.1017/S0003598X0009493X}}
- Hills, C. (2011) Overview: Anglo-Saxon Identity. The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: OUP.
- Hills C. and Lucy S. (2013). Spong Hill Part IX. Chronology and Synthesis. Cambridge: McDonald Inst of Archaeological Research.
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