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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates

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#Archaeologist & #archaeobotanist of ancient South Asia. Assoc Prof of #ArchaeologicalScience at SNU on X I'm @drjenniferbates Food, domestication, agriculture. she/her

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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
First #archaeobotany practical of the semester! Setting up for learning about #taxonomy, #botanical keys and using the reference collections. Always a good fun intro to the lab. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Science
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Super excited to be a part of this paper on Hominin ecological reconstruction that has just been published in Nature EcoEvol, but even more stunningly proud that my MA student is one of the co-authors! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience
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Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The authors report Acheulean hominin occupation of eastern Britain during glacial marine isotope stages 17–16 and again in glacial marine isotope stage 12 via stone tools in sediments dated to 712,000...
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Just been promoted to Associate Professor. #academia #SNU #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Thanks for the awesome memories #IWGP2025 #Groningen! Looking forward to 2028 in #Berlin for more #archaeobotany fun! #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #plants
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Final paper session of #IWGP2025 in #Groningen and we're continuing with domestication! Rethinking some theory, exploring South American cotton, the origins of poppy and looking to Neltuma chilensis management. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Global plant domestication session has a couple of papers before lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Soybeans in China and enset in Ethiopia are the foci, and how we resolve their origins and spread. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A sleepy morning after the #IWGP2025 party! We're back with more #food papers from the Americas and Europe. Starch, phytoliths, seeds and archaeochemicals...and cesspits! #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Incredible to be able to see the #Groningen #archaeobotany and #ethnobotany reference collection while at #IWGP2025. Truly amazing and extensive #seed, wood, pollen and more material. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
More #food #archaeobotany at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Case studies from China, Britain, Slovenia, Iraq and Alaska. Cooking methods, ingredients, and ideas of taste are all 'food for thought'. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Food is the theme for today at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Terminology, standardisation, experimentation, and methods are the key takeaways. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #food
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excellent paper by PhD student Matthew Conte from Seoul National University at #IWGP2025 on seed impressions in ceramics. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #Groningen
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Last session for the day and it's on #openscience in #archaeobotany. FAIR, CARE and interoperable principles are all on the table at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Apologies for not posting after coffee - I was chairing! Back now with more methods - #phytoliths, micro-contextualism, preservation experiments in silos and #rice paddy ecologies. #IWGP2025 #Groningen #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Huge congratulations to Emma Karoune for winning the inaugural #IWGP2025 Lisa Lodwick Award. The award honours those who support accessibility, open science and inclusively in #archaeobotany, following in Lisa's trailblazing footsteps. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Morning from #IWGP2025 in #Groningen! I'm in the methods session and we're thinking about proteins, sedaDNA, germination identification, millet dispersal, ceramic impressions and c14 in ceramic tempers. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
More #plant management and #Resilience at #IWGP2025. Thinking through weed floras, date palm in the Nile, geophytes, azuki beans and fire propagation, and Australian Aboriginal food histories amongst much more. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #ethnobotany
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Back from coffee and shifting to the #plant management session. Grapes, olives, wetlands and arable farming are all on the books as well as #archaeobotany, #isotopes, #archaeogenetics, #phytoliths, #charcoal. #IWGP2025 #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Amazing talk at #IWGP2025 from Indica Project member Kim Pangyu from @SeoulNatlUni on lentils cooking experiments in #India #archaeology. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I'm in the parallel session at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen this morning & we're thinking about plant movements. "Cerealization", Mongolian crop introductions, lentils in India, Balkan millets and wheat in Italy are all topics covered #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Icebreaker for #IWGP2025 at the beautiful #Groningen Botanical Gardens. Drinks and snacks in the Chinese gardens while talking #plants - fantastic! #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Final part of #IWGP2025 for today and we move to Africa, the Levant, Saudi Arabia and South Asia for more urban #archaeobotany. Subsistence strategies, storage, arid adaptation and fabric are some of the many topics covered. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Groningen
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Back after lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen for more on urban #archaeobotany. Big data mining, Bronze Age Mediterranean multiproxies, dung in #Italy, and cereals and theoretical approaches in #Egypt. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
1st day (morning session) at #IWGP2025 is on urban landscapes and we have talks on the Late #Neolithic ovens, Bulgarian city walls, Celtic oppidum, #Vikings pit houses, and Ephesos. #Groningen #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Welcome to #IWGP2025! The conference is beginning with a link down memory lane from the 6th meeting in 1983 held in #Groningen... to the conference today. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Registration has begun at #IWGP2025! Awesome bags, playing cards and other #archaeobotany based fun. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Groningen
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Chuffed to see dad reading my new book "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization"(Available from @universitypress.cambridge.org now in hardback and digital form) #IndusCivilization #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #harappa #India #Pakistan
Dad reading Prof Bates's book, The Origin of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization.Dedication page of Prof Bates's book, The Origin of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization. It reads "Dad - mum got the thesis dedication, it feels only right you get the book. Thank you for everything, always."
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Breakfast with new friends!
Two parakeets outside the window of my hotel watching curiously as I eat breakfast.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you are in South #India I recommend visiting the Sanganakallu Museum of #Archaeology in Ballari. One of the best museums of regional archaeology I've seen as it places the local material in the global context and has stunning displays. Staff are super friendly! #archaeology🏺
The Sanganakallu Museum of Archaeology main hall.A Neolithic (Megalithic) ceramic coffin that stands on six legs and was surrounded by other pots inside the dolmen tomb. Looking down from the top floor into the reconstructed landscape of the Sanganakallu mountain range. This tableau covers the centre of the main museum hall and highlights the many features of the inselberg and surrounding landscape. One of the displays of the museum, this one showing the landscape features and the flora and climate.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Went rock climbing! Up Sanganakallu to see the #Neolithic rock drawings in Ballari, #India. There are over 3000 of them across the inselberg, as well as a quarry & habitation at the top and an ashmound at the foot. Awesome #archaeology🏺
Rock drawings at Sanganakallu of elephant and cow with three forked horns, and peacock. Rock drawing at Sanganakallu of cattle with horns woven together with rope. Rock drawing at Sanganakallu of indica cattle with hump, and hunting man.The rock boulders at Sanganakallu, with many rock drawings visible.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Spending a while of my sabbatical travelling India 🇮🇳 maintaining connections, planning future work, and catching up on writing projects. And thoroughly enjoying seeing as many amazing things as possible! #archaeology #history #India
Temple carving near Sirpur, India. Buddhist stupa near Sirpur, India.Temple near Sirpur, India. Dancing girl, Harappan bronze figurine, originally found in Pakistan, now in New Delhi National Museum.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today I bricked my laptop, failed to do conference registration, made a mess of the lab benches the students had so kindly cleaned, stained one of my favourite tops in the wash BUT I did do 99% paperwork needed for renewing contract & get ready for the asoc. prof upgrade before laptop bricked*
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🚨 #openaccess paper "Early to Mid-Holocene land use transitions in South Asia: A new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts" in @plosone.org The paper links to #Anthropocene and #climatechange debates and how we model this using #archaeology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Early to Mid-Holocene land use transitions in South Asia: A new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts
While it is clear that current human impact on the earth system is unprecedented in scope and scale, much less is known about the long-term histories of human land use and their effects on vegetation,...
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Visit to the incredible site #Brahmagiri in #India. Spectacular setting for a deep history of human occupation, and wonderful to know more research will be happening here. #archaeology #history
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Delighted to receive the Marathi language version of "The Indians", a book I was honoured to contribute to looking at the #archaeology, #history, #culture and #politics of #India.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Visiting the house in Mumbai where Gandhi-ji stayed! Incredibly important place especially today in these times of turbulence globally that we remember to stand up for what is right and true.
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Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
JOB! This looks great careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/?_... #archaeology 🏺
Image if adverts fir assistant archaeologist in Bristol, deadline 2nd Feb 2025
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Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Post doc position! #archaeology🏺
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🚨session for ##WorldArchaeologyCongress: "Does the Neolithic really apply in Asia? Questioning the appropriateness of this term and whether it should be replaced." Theme 20/Session 07. We aim to question what the #Neolithic actually means in the context of Asian #archaeological diversity. 🧵1/1
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
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Cholas: How a dynasty in India created a cultural and economic superpower
The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and culture.
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
🚨Job alert at Duke University #Post-Doctoral Associate in #Asian #Climate and #Environmental Studies, researching environmental and climate studies in East and Southeast Asia. #SocialSciences and #Humanities academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/295...
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Indus Valley: A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
An Indian leader offers a $1m prize for deciphering the Indus script, but the puzzle remains unsolved.
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Sabrina Bianco @sabbianco.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
To all the archaebotanists here ⚠️⚠️ On behalf of the initiative “Ethics in Archaeobotany”, I invite you to complete a questionnaire until the 17th of January 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help to spread the voice! 🙏🙏
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Ethics in Archaeobotanical Research Questionnaire
General Aim. The aim of this questionnaire is to gather information about the ethical issues that arise in the field of Archaeobotany (aspects linked to laboratory methods and general archaeobotanical...
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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
I'm losing my mind this museum smuggling scheme is wild...🏺
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @cambridgeup.bsky.social, it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.
Book cover of The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization by Jennifer Bates. Image shows a woman in a blue sari decorated with red flowers, with shell bangles on her arm. She stands in a harvested field looking away across to people carrying the harvest in the distance.
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🏺 British Academy & heritage orgs push for archaeology in UK schools! Prof Collins: "It bridges STEM & humanities while teaching crucial skills." Heritage sector's £15.3B impact shows growing career opportunities. Proposal includes new modules & assessment frameworks 🔍📚 #Education #Heritage #UKNews
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British Academy Calls for Greater Role of Archaeology in School Curriculum
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Augusta McMahon @augustamcmahon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#Assyriology postdoc opportunity at ISAC UChicago with the #Nippur Tablet Collection. 🏺 Deadline end of January. apply.interfolio.com/160845 EOE/Vet/Disability
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Totally not #archaeology but this is what I was up to 8 years ago at the same time I started my 1st post-doc! This was me in my TK costume along with others from @the501stlegion.bsky.social's UK garrison for the Rogue One release. Awesome times!
Stormtroopers from Star Wars walking over London's millennium bridge
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Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates @drjenniferbates.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I think we're going to be okay for charcoal analysis at this site! Excellent sample preservation and sized pieces coming from the earliest to latest layers. #archaeology #archaeobotany #anthracology
Charred wood sample from an archaeological site
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Open Phytoliths Community @open-phytoliths.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey #phytolith folks, We are helping researchers to learn about open science practices and how to embed them into phytolith research. Check out our multi-lingual website: open-phytoliths.netlify.app We have lots of resources about open access, data repositories, FAIR data, Github & ontologies.
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Open Phytoliths - Building a shared vision for open science adoption and implementation among phytolith researchers globally.
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