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-
- Chairman, Research Advisory Panel (2004-2007)
- NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)
- Chairman, Science-based Archaeology Strategy Committee (1996 to 1999)
- Earth Sciences Technology Board (to 1996-1999)
- Chairman, Science-based Archaeology Strategy Committee (1996 to 1999)
- British Association for the Advancement of Science
- President of the Archaeology and Anthropology section 1998
- President of the Archaeology and Anthropology section 1998
- Wellcome Trust
- Chairman Bio-archaeology Panel (2000-2005)
- Chairman Bio-archaeology Panel (2000-2005)
- AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council))
- Convenor, Research Panel 1 (2006-2009)
- Research Panel Member (2004-2009)
- Convenor, Research Panel 1 (2006-2009)
- ERC SH5 Advanced Panel member (2012)
- Leicester University
- i-science steering committee member (2003-ongoing)
- i-science steering committee member (2003-ongoing)
- Oxford Archaeological Unit
- Research Advisory Panel member (2003-ongoing)
- 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