Sara Champion

Champion was born Sara Hermon, the second of four children. The family lived in Kenya and Tanzania (Tanganyika at the time) for six years of her childhood. Champion later attended Benenden School. After Benenden, Champion attended the University of Edinburgh, where she studied for her first degree and a master's degree in archaeology under Stuart Piggott and Charles Thomas. In 1968 Champion moved to St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied for a D.Phil. under the supervision of Christopher Hawkes concentrating on the Early European Iron Age. == Academic and Archaeological work ==

Sara Champion spent time at the University of Galway in Ireland, before moving to the University of Southampton in 1972, and electronic archaeology. She also spoke at several events on this topic including various IFA conferences. Sara Champion was a published author with publications on a range of topics from the Iron Age, to women in archaeology and Irish folklore. == Personal life ==

Champion met Timothy Champion (future President of the Royal Archaeological Institute and The Prehistoric Society) while studying at Oxford and they were married in 1970 at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge. In 1972 the Champions moved to Southampton, where their two sons, Edward and William (the drummer of Coldplay), were born, in the mid-1970s, and 1978 respectively. == Selected publications ==

• 1970 "The Hillforts of the Cotteswold Scarp, with Special Reference to Recent Excavations", ''Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club'' 36, 18-23 • 1971 "Excavations at Leckhampton Hill; 1969–70 Interim Report", Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 90, 5-21 • 1973 Andover – The Archaeological Implications of Development Andover and District Excavation Committee • 1976 "Leckhampton Hill, Gloucestershire – 1925 and 1970", in Hillforts: Later Prehistoric Earthworks in Britain and Ireland, ed. D. W. Harding, 177-191 • 1980 A Dictionary of Terms and Techniques in Archaeology. Oxford: Phaidon Press Ltd • 1980 "Dendrochronology", Nature 284, 663–664 • 1995 "Archaeology and the internet", Field Archaeologist 24, 18–19 • 1997 "Special Review Section. Electronic Archaeology", Antiquity 71, co-authored with Christopher Chippindale • 1998 "Women in British Archaeology. Visible and Invisible," in Excavating Women. A History of Women in European Archaeology, Andreu, M. Diaz and Sørensen, M.-L.S. (eds), London, 175–197. ==Sara Champion Memorial Lectures==

The Prehistoric Society's annual Sara Champion Memorial Lectures are held every October at the Society of Antiquaries of London lecture theatre in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. The 10th annual lecture, due to be held in October 2010, was deferred and instead a debate was held to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Prehistoric Society. The Sara Champion Debate had the topic "This House believes that the study of the Stone Ages has contributed more to our knowledge of the human condition than study of the Metal Ages" and was led by Clive Gamble and Tim Champion. The 2020–2021 lecture numbering system seems to have missed one out: the 20th Sara Champion Memorial Lecture. ==References==