research overview
- Dr. Jones is a historical archaeologist with research specialties in settlement ecology, landscapes and built environments, socioeconomic interactions, and demographic archaeology. His research is community-based and multiscalar and incorporates GIS-based landscape reconstruction and spatial analysis; historic documents, census records, and oral histories; and artifact analysis. His current focus is on late 1800s rural communities in the U.S. and the impact of the rise of commercial farming on household and community economics, community social organization, landscapes, and health and mortality. Essentially, his work is examining how rural U.S. farming communities formed. He is currently working with communities in Upstate New York, where he grew up, and has begun local research here in the Boulder County. This work expands upon his previous settlement ecology research into Haudenosaunee and Piedmont Siouan Indigenous communities just prior to and during European colonization of eastern North America.
