Emily L Jones

Professor and UNM Regents' Lecturer
Director, Zooarchaeology Lab

Photo: Emily L Jones

Archaeology

At UNM since 
2012
Email: 
elj@unm.edu
Curriculum vitae
 
Website/s:
 emilylenajones.com

Recent Courses:

  • Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Anth 523
  • Stone Age Europe, Anth 325/525
  • Zooarchaeology, Anth 484/584

Education:

BA, Vassar College (1996)

MA, University of Washington (2001)

PhD, University of Washington (2004)
Dissertation: "Broad spectrum diets and the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): Dietary change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the Dordogne, Southwestern France"

Research:

Human-environment interactions, historical biogeography, zooarchaeology, animal domestication and human adaptation, public archaeology and community outreach.

Current research projects include:

  • Horses and human societies in the Americas
  • The Columbian exchange and long-term environmental change in central New Mexico
  • People, animals, and the domestication spectrum in the Ancestral Pueblo world
  • Refugia, environmental hotspots, climate change, and demography in the Eurasian Paleolithic and Mesolithic

Recent Publications:

*Ainsworth, Caitlin S., *Abigail A. Judkins, and Emily Lena Jones (2025). Environmental variation and domestic turkey management in the pre-Hispanic Middle Rio Grande Valley. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 35(6):542-554. doi:10.1002/oa.70044
*Carvalho, Milena, Jonathan Haws, and Emily Lena Jones (2025). Late Neanderthal subsistence, site duration, mobility and landscape us at Lapa do Picareiro: a zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of Level JJ. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4:1545249. doi:10.3389/fearc.2025.1545249
*Chapman, Larkin, Cyler Conrad, *Caitlin Ainsworth, Chalowit Thongcharoenchaikit, and Emily Lena Jones (2025). The Burmese hare as a palaeoecological indicator: a stable isotope analysis from archaeological sites in Thailand. Archaeological Research in Asia 42:100614. doi:10.1016/j.ara.2025.100614
Ward, Chance, Jimmy Arterberry, Joseph Aguilar, Natalie Patton, Christina Cain, Emily Lena Jones, and William Timothy Treal Taylor (2024). Towards legal, ethical, and culturally-informed care of animal remains in American museum collections. Advances in Archaeological Practice12(4):416–423. doi:10.1017/aap.2024.25
*Dombrosky, Jonathan, *Caitlin Ainsworth, *Abigail Judkins, *Jana Valesca Meyer, Michael A. Adler, and Emily Lena Jones (2023). Reconsidering archaeological garden hunting: a view from the Northern U.S. Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51:104194.
doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104194
Jones, Emily Lena and *Milena Carvalho (2023). Ecospaces of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The archaeofaunal record of the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of Human Evolution177:103331. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103331
Jones, Emily Lena and Jacob L. Fisher, editors (2023). Questioning Rebound: People and Environmental Change in the Protohistoric and Early Historic Americas. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. 
Jones, Emily Lena, Lawrence Straus, Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, and Manuel R. González Morales (2023). Structuring domestic space in the Lower Magdalenian: an analysis of the fauna from Level 115 of El Mirón Cave, Cantabria. Antiquity 97(392):280-294. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.9