EMILY LENA JONES

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I research how the human-animal relationship interacts with environments across time and space. The broad spectrum revolution, the ways in which human colonization events (especially human colonization of Europe and the post-Columbian European colonization of the Americas) impact human-animal and human-environment interactions, and the role of the human-animal relationship in facilitating global and near-global distributions of particular types of animals (especially cats, dogs, horses, and honeybees) are just a few of the topics I study.

I am Professor and Regents' Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico as well as director of the UNM Zooarchaeology Lab. Lab alums can be found working all over the world; they include Dr. William Taylor, Dr. Cyler Conrad, Dr. Caroline Gabe, Dr. Jonathan Dombrosky, Dr. Milena Carvalho, Dr. Asia Alsgaard, Dr. Mark Williams, and Dr. Thatcher Selzer-Rogers. I am unfortunately unable to accept new graduate students at the moment, but hope to be able to do so again in coming years; I'll keep this space updated.

To learn more about my work, take a look at my curriculum vitae. If you are looking for information about my non-academic work, my personal website can be found here: emilylenajones.com.

NEWS AND NOTES

Our paper on horses and people in the early historic American West in Science (see also here) was awarded the 2024 Newcomb Cleveland prize!

I will be at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2024-2025, as the Weatherhead Resident Scholar.

ZOOARCHAEOLOGY LAB

The UNM Zooarchaeology Lab contains a reference collection of comparative skeletal material (largely mammalian and avian taxa common in New Mexico and the greater US Southwest) as well as a small reference library, two 3D scanners, microscopes, and other analytical equipment.

The lab is closed for academic year 2024-25 except by prior arrangement. if you have any questions, please reach out to me.   

STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS

Zooarchaeology lab and UNM Archaeology Ph.D. student Larkin Chapman is the 2024 UNM Anthropology Butler Award winner! Congratulations Larkin!

MORE INFORMATION

Information about my work (including how to contact me) can be found here. You can also find me on Google Scholar, on ORCID, on ResearchGate, and on Instagram.

Interested in my non-academic work? My personal website is here