Helen Waterhouse
| Helen Thomas Waterhouse | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Helen Thomas 5 March 1913 Chaldon, England |
| Died | 9 September 1999 (aged 86) Oxford, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Archaeologist |
| Spouse(s) | Ellis Waterhouse |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical archaeology |
| Institutions | |
| Notable works | The British School at Athens: the First Hundred Years |
Helen Thomas Waterhouse (5 March 1913 – 9 September 1999) was a British archaeologist and classical scholar specialising in prehistoric Laconia (Sparta).
Helen Thomas was born 5 March 1913 in Chaldon, England. Her father was Frederick William Thomas an Oxford Professor of Sanskrit and Oriental Languages. She was initially educated at home with a tutor, but later attended Roedean School, a public boarding school for girls.
After Roedean, Thomas went to Girton College, Cambridge to read classics. She graduated with a first class honours degree in classics with the additional distinction of a starred first in archaeology.
She married the English art historian Ellis Waterhouse in 1949.
After graduating from Cambridge, Waterhouse travelled to Greece where she attended the British School at Athens from 1935 to 1938. Her focus of study was the prehistory of mainland Greece under the direction of Alan Wace.
Her major field of research was the prehistoric Mycenaean civilisation, with an emphasis on Laconia and Sparta. In Sparta, she participated in a survey and the excavation of the palace of Menelaus. She later took part in the excavations of the Island of Ithaca at Stavros, directed by Sylvia Benton.
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