Martin Jones - Curriculum Vitae#

Career and academic history

• 2012-(continuing) Vice-Master, Darwin College, Cambridge
  
• 2007 Special Research Advisor, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
  
• 1990- (continuing) George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Cambridge
  
• 1981-90 Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Science, University of Durham
  
• 1979-81 Research assistant, University of Oxford
  
• 1974-79 Environmental Specialist, Oxford Archaeological Unit
  
• 1985 DPhil (Oxon) The ecological and cultural implications of selected carbonised seed assemblages from southern Britain
  
• 1973 BA(Cantab) 1st class honours in Natural Science
  
• 1972 Cambridge University Prize for Botany (Frank Smart Prize)

External appointment history

• HBMC: (English Heritage)
  
  • Chairman, Research Advisory Panel (2004-2007)
    
  • Chairman, Science and Conservation Panel (1997-2004)
    
  • Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee (1998-2001)
    
  • Historic Sites and Landscapes Advisory Committee (2001-
    
• NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)
  
  • Chairman, Science-based Archaeology Strategy Committee (1996 to 1999)
    
  • Earth Sciences Technology Board (to 1996-1999)
    
• British Association for the Advancement of Science
  
  • President of the Archaeology and Anthropology section 1998
    
• Wellcome Trust
  
  • Chairman Bio-archaeology Panel (2000-2005)
    
• AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council))
  
  • Convenor, Research Panel 1 (2006-2009)
    
  • Research Panel Member (2004-2009)
    
• ERC SH5 Advanced Panel member (2012)
  
• Leicester University
  
  • i-science steering committee member (2003-ongoing)
    
• Oxford Archaeological Unit
  
  • Research Advisory Panel member (2003-ongoing)
    
• External examinerships present and past
  
  • Univs of Bradford, Dublin, Durham, Sheffield, Leicester, London, UMIST and York

Current Research Interests

a) Food and foodways
b) Cold climate ecology and pre-agricultural use of plant foods (current focus on Dolni Vestonice and the Moravian Gate. New collaboration with the Baikal Archaeology Project).
c) Early crops through bio-archaeology and genetics (current focus on Triticum diccocum, Hordeum vulgare and Panicum miliaceum)
d) Later prehistoric and early historic agriculture