• Emily L. Jones is a professor, regents' lecturer, and director for the Zooarchaeology Lab in the Department of Anthropology. 

  • She has co-written and published several research papers about anthropology; her most recent publication is about artiodactyl exploitation and socio-environmental connectivity at Tijeras Pueblo.

  • The UNM Zooarchaeology Lab that Jones runs is a resource that contains a reference collection of comparative skeletal material.

  • She has received many awards and accolades for her research to include the American Anthropological Association Presidential Leadership Fellow, Research and Creative Works Leader Award, and Newcomb Cleveland Prize. 

  • Jones received her doctorate and M.A. from the University of Washington and her B.A. from Vassar College.

Areas of Interest
Human-environment interactions, historical biogeography, zooarchaeology, animal domestication and human adaptation, public archeology and community outreach.

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