Dr Mica Jones

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Postdoctoral Researcher
New Bantu Mosaics project
mica.jones@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research interests: Stratigraphy and chronology; zooarchaeology; stable isotope analysis; human-environment interactions; human-animal relationships; subsistence economies; social variability

Geographic areas: Southern Africa; East Africa; Eastern North America

Research Profile
Publications
  • Jones, M.B. and R. Tibesasa. Kansyore fisher-hunter-gatherers abandoned the northeastern Lake Victoria shoreline during an arid period in the middle Holocene: a reconsideration of dates from western Kenya along with new radiometric and faunal evidence from the Namundiri A shell midden in Eastern Uganda. Journal of African Archaeology, accepted.
  • Tibesasa, R. and M.B. Jones. 2021. Shells, sand, and Holocene archaeology in Lake Victoria Nyanza, Eastern Uganda. Nyame Akuma 95 (June): 55-61.
  • Jones, M.B., S.A. Brandt, E.R. Henry, and S.H. Ambrose. 2021. Improved ostrich eggshell and ungulate tooth enamel radiocarbon dating reveals Later Stone Age occupation in arid Late Pleistocene Somalia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 36 (102844): 1-13.
  • Henry, E.R., N.G. Mueller, M.B. Jones. 2021. Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time: A biographical perspective on the Winchester Farm earthwork in Central Kentucky, USA. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 62 (101294): 1-25.
  • Jones, M.B. 2020. Ph.D. Abstract: Variability among Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in eastern Africa. AZANIA: Archaeological Research in Africa, 56 (1): 151-152.
  • Reid, R.E.B., M.B. Jones, S.A. Brandt, H.T. Bunn, and F. Marshall. 2019. Oxygen isotope analyses of ungulate tooth enamel confirm low seasonality of rainfall contributed to the African Humid Period in Somalia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 534 (109272): 1-13.
  • Jones, M.B., S.A. Brandt, and F. Marshall. 2018. Hunter-gatherer reliance on inselbergs, big game, and dwarf antelope at the Rifle Range Site, southern Somalia ~20,000-5,000 BP. Quaternary International, 471: 55-65.