Jones graduated from
Cardiff University with a degree in
zoology, before working as a science teacher in the UK and
Greece.[1] Next, Jones worked as a research assistant at the
British School at Athens, before undertaking an MPhil and then PhD in Archaeology at the
University of Cambridge.[1] After completing her PhD, Jones worked in the Department of Urban Archaeology,
Museum of London, before commencing an academic post at the
University of Sheffield in 1984.[1] In 2004 Jones was appointed Professor of Archaeology.[2]
Jones has pioneered the development of
archaeobotanical methodologies including ethnobotany, crop-processing analysis, weed ecology, and aDNA, and archaeobotanical research in Greece. Early work used ethnographic observations of crop-processing in Greece to produce models which could be applied to archaeobotanical remains.[3] From the 1990s onwards, Jones has worked with colleagues including
Amy Bogaard to develop the application of functional weed ecology to archaeobotanical assemblages in order to reconstruct past crop husbandry.[4] More recently, Jones has been utilising DNA of modern landraces to investigate the spread of domesticated cereals into Europe,[5] and working to develop the application of stable isotope analysis to archaeobotanical remains.
Jones is noted for her skill in teaching and research.[6] Jones is credited with initiating archaeobotanical study in Greece, training Greek archaeologists in archaeobotany and initiating the recovery of macroscopic plant remains from archaeological sites.[7][8]
Jones, G. and Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. On the importance of cereal cultivation in the British Neolithic, in S. Colledge and J. Conolly (eds.) The Origins and Spread of Domestic Plants Southwest Asia and Europe. Left Coast Press: 391-419.
Jones, G., Charles, Bogaard, A. and Hodgson, J. 2010. Crops and weeds: the role of weed functional types in the identification of crop husbandry methods. Journal of Archaeological Science 37: 70-77.
Jones, G., Charles, M., Colledge, S., Jones, M. Leigh, F., Lister, D., Powell, W., Smith L., Brown, T. and Jones. H. 2013. Barley DNA evidence for the routes of agricultural spread into Europe following multiple domestications in W. Asia. Antiquity 87: 701-13.
Boardman, S. and Jones, G. 1990. Experiments on the effects of charring on cereal plant components.
Journal of Archaeological Science 17: 1-11.
Jones, G. 1991. Numerical analysis, in W. van Zeist, K. Wasylikowa and K.-E. Behre (eds.) Progress in Old World Palaeoethnobotany. Rotterdam: 63-80.
Jones, G. 1992. Weed phytosociology and crop husbandry: identifying a contrast between ancient and modern practice. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 73: 133-43.
Jones, G. and Halstead, P. 1995. Maslins, mixtures and monocrops: on the interpretation of archaeological crop samples of heterogenous composition. Journal of Archaeological Science 22: 103-14.
Jones, G., Valamoti, S. and Charles, M. 2000. Early crop diversity: a `new´ glume wheat from northern Greece. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 9: 133-46.
^Jones, Glynis (1987). "A statistical approach to the archaeological identification of crop processing". Journal of Archaeological Science. 14 (3): 311–323.
doi:
10.1016/0305-4403(87)90019-7.
ISSN0305-4403.
^Jones, G.; Charles, M.; Bogaard, A.; Hodgson, J. (2010). "Crops and weeds: the role of weed functional ecology in the identification of crop husbandry methods". Journal of Archaeological Science. 37 (1): 70–77.
doi:
10.1016/j.jas.2009.08.017.
ISSN0305-4403.