Publications

Publications

Liu X, Lister DL, Zhijun Z, Staff RA, Jones P, Zhou L, Pokharia AK, Petrie CA, Pathak A, Lu H, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Bates J, Pilgram TK and Jones MK (2016) The virtues of small grain size: Potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats Quaternary International (available online)

Jones H, Lister DL, Cai D, Kneale CJ, Cockram J, Pẽna-Chocarro L and Jones MK (2016) The trans-Eurasian crop exchange in prehistory: Discerning pathways from barley phylogeography Quaternary International (available online)

Lister DL (2015) DNA, analysis of. In Beaudry MC and Metheny K (eds) The Archaeology of Food: An encyclopedia (Rowman & Littlefield: London)

Cui Y, Dong G, Li H, An T, Liu X, Wang J, Wang H, Ren X, Li X, Chen F (2015) Early ceramic trade in Gansu and Qinghai regions, northwest China: A comparative elemental analysis on sherds of Majiayao culture, Yangshao culture nad Qijia culture Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3: 65–72

Dong G, Zhang D, Liu X, Liu F, Chen F, Jones MK (2015) Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP Science 348: 6237

Chen F, Dong G, Zhang D, Liu X, Jia X, An CB, Ma M, Xie YW, Barton L, Ren X, Zhao Z, Wu X, Jones MK (2015) Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP Science 347: 248–250

Liu X, Fuller DQ and Jones MK (2015) Early agriculture in China. In Barker G and Goucher C (eds) The Cambridge World History vol II: A World with Agriculture, 12,000 CBE - 500 CE (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge)

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Lightfoot E, O'Connell TC, Voyakin D, Liu X, Svyatko S, Usmanova E and Jones MK (2015): The extent of agriculture among pastoralist societies in Kazakhstan using stable isotope analysis of animal bone Journal of Archaeological Science 59: 23–34

Brown TA, Cappellini E, Kistler L, Lister DL, Oliveira HR, Wales N and Schlumbaum A (2015) Recent advances in ancient DNA research and their implications for archaeobotany Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 24: 207–214

Liu X and Jones MK (2014) Under one roof: People, crops and animals in Neolithic North China. In Boyle K, Rabett RJ and Hunt CO (eds) Living in the Landscape: Essays in Honour of Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge)

Liu X, Lightfoot E, O’Connell TC, Wang H, Li S, Zhou L, Hu Y, Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G and Jones MK (2014) From necessity to choice: Dietary revolutions in west China in the second millennium BC World Archaeology 46(5): 661–680

Lightfoot E, Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, O’Connell TC, Kukushkin IA, Loman V, Varfolomeev V, Liu X and Jones MK (2014) How ‘pastoral’ is pastoralism? Dietary diversity in Bronze Age communities in the Central Kazakhstan Steppes Archaeometry 57(S1): 232–249

Lightfoot E, Šlaus M, Rajić Šikanjić P and O’Connell TC (2014) Metals and millets: Bronze and Iron Age diet in inland and coastal Croatia seen through stable isotope analysis Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 7: 375–386

Liu X and Jones MK (2014) Food globalization in prehistory: Top down or bottom up? Antiquity 88: 956–963

Hunt HV, Badakshi F, Romanova O, Howe CJ, Jones MKJ and Heslop-Harrison JSP (2014) Reticulate evolution in Panicum (Poaceae): The origin of tetraploid broomcorn millet, P. miliaceum Journal of Experimental Botany 65(12): 3165–3175

Oliveira HR, Hagenblad J, Leino MW, Leigh FJ, Lister DL, Penã-Chocarro L and Jones MK (2014) Wheat in the Mediterranean revisited – tetraploid wheat landraces assessed with elite bread wheat single-nucleotide polymorphism markers BMC Genetics 15: 54

Ma M, Dong G, Liu X, Lightfoot E, Chen F, Wang H, Li H and Jones MK (2013) Stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains at the Qijiaping site in Middle Gansu, China International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Available online

Lister DL, Hunt HV and Jones MK (2013) Crop phylogeographic studies of the spread of agriculture utilizing germplasm, herbarium specimens and archaeological plant material Proceedings on Applied Botany, Genetics and Breeding 173: 32–44

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Jacob J, Telizhenko S and Jones MK (2013) Miliacin in palaeosols from an Early Iron Age in Ukraine reveal in situ cultivation of broomcorn millet Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Available online: DOI 10.1007/s12520-013-0142-7

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Staff RA, Hunt HV, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) The early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe Antiquity 87(338): 1073–1085

Lightfoot E, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) Why move starchy cereals? A review of the isotopic evidence for prehistoric millet consumption across Eurasia World Archaeology 45(4): 574–623

Lister DL, Jones H, Jones MK, O’Sullivan DM and Cockram J (2013) Analysis of DNA polymorphism in ancient barley herbarium material: Validation of the KASP SNP genotyping platform Taxon 62: 779–789

Jones G, Charles M, Jones M, Colledge S, Leigh F, Lister D, Smith L, Powell W, Brown TA and Jones H (2013) DNA evidence for multiple introductions of barley into Europe following dispersed domestications in W. Asia Antiquity 87: 701–713

Hunt HV, Moots HM, Graybosch RA, Jones H, Parker M, Romanova O, Jones MK, Howe CJ and Trafford K (2013) Waxy Phenotype Evolution in the Allotetraploid Cereal Broomcorn Millet: Mutations at the GBSSI Locus in their Functional and Phylogenetic Context Molecular Biology and Evolution 30: 109–122

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Telizhenko S and Jones MK (2013) The earliest evidence of domesticated wheat in the Crimea at Chalcolithic Ardych-Burun Journal of Field Archaeology 38(2): 1–9

Lister DL and Jones MK (2013) Is naked barley an eastern or a western crop? The combined evidence of archaeobotany and genetics Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 22: 439–446

Leigh FJ, Oliveira HR, Mackay I, Jones H, Smith LMJ, Wolters P, Charles MP, Jones MK, Powell W, Brown TA and Jones GEM (2013) Remnant genetic diversity detected in an ancient crop: T. dicoccon Schrank landraces from Asturias, Spain Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 60(1): 355–365

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G (2012) The earliest appearance of domesticated plant species and their origins on the western fringes of the Eurasian Steppe Documenta Praehistorica XXXIX: 1–21

Liu X, Jones MK, Zhao Z, Liu G and O'Connell TC (2012) The earliest evidence of millet as a staple crop: New light on Neolithic foodways in North China American Journal of Physical Anthropology 149(2): 283–290

Jones GEM, Jones H, Charles MP, Jones MK, Colledge S, Leigh FJ, Lister DA, Smith LMJ, Powell W and Brown TA (2012) Phylogeographic analysis of barley DNA as evidence for the spread of Neolithic agriculture through Europe Journal of Archaeological Science 39: 3230–3238

Oliveira HR, Campana MG, Jones H, Hunt HV, Leigh F, Redhouse DI, Lister DL and Jones MK (2012) Tetraploid wheat landraces in the Mediterranean Basin: Taxonomy, evolution and genetic diversity PLoS ONE 7(5): e37063

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Telizhenko S and Jones MK (2012) Archaeobotanical investigation of two Scythian-Sarmatian period pits in eastern Ukraine: Implications for floodplain cereal cultivation Journal of Field Archaeology 37: 51–61

Oliveira HR, Civán P, Morales J, Rodriguez-Rodriguez A, Lister DL and Jones MK (2012) Ancient DNA in archaeological wheat grains: Preservation conditions and the study of pre-Hispanic agriculture on the island of Gran Canaria (Spain) Journal of Archaeological Science 39: 828–835

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Hunt HV and Jones MK (2012) Experimental approaches to understanding variation in grain size in Panicum miliaceum (broomcorn millet) and its relevance for interpreting archaeobotanical assemblages Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21: 69–77

Jones H, Civán P, Cockram J, Leigh FJ, Smith LMJ, Jones MK, Charles MP, Molina-Cano J-L, Powell W, Jones GEM and Brown TA (2011) Evolutionary history of barley cultivation in Europe revealed by genetic analysis of extant landraces BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 320

Oliveira HR, Lister DL and Jones MK (2011) Phylogeography of cereal landraces and the spread of agriculture in Northwest Africa. In Fahmy AG, Kahlheber S and D'Andrea AC (eds) Windows on the African Past: Current Approaches to African Archaeobotany (Africa Magna/ Verlag: Frankfurt)

Oliveira HR, Jones H, Leigh F, Lister DL, Jones MK and Peña-Chocarro L (2011) Phylogeography of einkorn landraces in the Mediterranean basin and Central Europe: Population structure and cultivation history Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 3: 327–341

Hunt HV, Campana MG, Lawes MC, Park YJ, Bower MA, Howe CJ and Jones MK (2011) Genetic diversity and phylogeography of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) across Eurasia Molecular Ecology 20: 4756–4771

Jones MK, Hunt H, Lightfoot E, Lister D, Liu X and Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G (2011) Food globalisation in prehistory World Archaeology 34(4): 665–675

Campana MG, Lister DL, Whitten CM, Edwards CJ, Stock F, Barker G and Bower MA (2011) Complex relationships between mitochondrialand nuclear DNA preservation in historical DNA extracts Archaeometry 54: 193–202

Li CX, Lister DL, Li HJ, Xu Y, Cui Y, Bower MA, Jones MK and Zhou H (2011) Ancient DNA analysis of desiccated wheat grains excavated from a Bronze Age cemetery in Xinjiang Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 115–119

Hunt HV, Denyer K, Packman LC, Jones MK and Howe CJ (2010) Molecular basis of the waxy phenotype in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) Molecular Biology and Evolution 27: 1478–1494

Lister DL, Bower MA and Jones MK (2010) Herbarium specimens expand the geographical and temporal range of germplasm data in phylogeographic studies Taxon 59: 1321–1323

Hunt H and Jones MK (2009) Pathways across Asia: Exploring the history of Panicum and Setaria in the Indian subcontinent Pragdhara 18: 53–68

Jones MK and Liu X (2009) Origins of agriculture in East Asia Science 324: 730–731

Lister DL, Thaw S, Bower MA, Charles M, Jones G, Jones H, Howe CJ, Brown TA and Jones MK (2009) Latitudinal variation in a photoperiod response gene in European barley: Insight into the spread of agriculture from historic specimens Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 1092–1098

Liu X, Hunt HV and Jones MK (2009) River valleys and foothills: Changing archaeological perceptions of North China's earliest farms Antiquity 83: 82–95

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Hunt HV and Jones MK (2009) Multiple sources for Neolithic European agriculture: Geographical origins of early domesticates in Moldova and Ukraine. In: Dolukhanov PM (ed.) The East European Plain on the Eve of Agriculture (Archaeopress: Oxford)

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G and Telizhenko SA (2009) The peculiarities of Neolithic in Seversky Donets basin (according to the research results of the Neolithic settlements in eastern Ukraine Starobelsk-I and Novoselovka-III) Vzaimodeistvie i khronologiya kultur mezolita i neolita vostochnoi evropy. Materialy Mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferencii, posveschyannoi 100-letiyu N. N. Gurinoi: 143–145 (in Russian)

Hunt HV and Jones MK (2008) Pathways across Asia: Exploring the history of Panicum and Setaria in the Indian subcontinent Pragdhara 18: 53–68

Hunt HV, Vander Linden M, Liu X, Motuzaite-Matuzevicuite G and Jones MK (2008) Millets across Eurasia: Chronology and context of early records of the genera Panicum and Setaria from archaeological sites in the Old World Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 17: S5–S18

Jones H, Leigh FJ, Mackay I, Bower MA, Smith LMJ, Charles MP, Jones GEM, Jones MK, Brown TA and Powell W (2008) Population based re-sequencing reveals that the flowering time adaptation of cultivated barley originated east of the Fertile Crescent Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 2211–2219

Jones H, Lister DL, Bower MA, Leigh FJ, Smith LMJ and Jones MK (2008) Approaches and constraints of using existing landrace and extant plant material to understand agricultural spread in prehistory Plant Genetic Resources 6: 98–112

Lister DL, Bower MA, Howe CJ and Jones MK (2008) Extraction and amplification of nuclear DNA from herbarium specimens of emmer wheat: A method for assessing DNA preservation by maximum amplicon length recovery Taxon 57: 254–258

Liu X and Jones MK (2008) When archaeology begins: Cultural and political context of Chinese archaeological thought Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 18: 25–27

Liu Y, Song J and Liu X (2007) Scientific analyses of materials from the Zhouyuan site Journal of Archaeology and Cultural Relics 4: 94–100 (in Chinese)

Liu X (2007) Origins and early spread of a minor cereal: Stable isotopic and archaeobotanical studies on Panicum milliaceum. In: Ethnohistory and Archaeology of Northern Eurasia: Theory, Methods and Practice (Irkutsk: Publishing House of Irkutsk State Technical University)

Fuller D, Korisettar R, Venkatasubbaiah P and Jones MK (2004) Early plant domestications in Southern India: Some preliminary archaeobotanical results Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 13: 115–129

Jones MK (2004) Between Fertile Crescents: Minor grain crops and agricultural origins. In: Jones M (ed.) Traces of ancestry: Studies in honour of Colin Renfrew (McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge)

Jones MK (2003) Bio-archaeology and the Proto-Indo-European Lexicon: The Kurgan Hypothesis Revisited. In: Boyle K, Renfrew C and Levine L (eds) Ancient interactions: East and west in Eurasia (McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge)

Jones MK (2003) Issues of scale and symbiosis: Unpicking the agricultural 'package'. In: Bellwood P and Renfrew C (eds) Examining the farming / language dispersal hypothesis (McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge)

Theses

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, PhD thesis (submitted 2010): An archaeobotanical approach to the earliest appearance of domesticated plant species in Ukraine. Supervisor: Prof. MK Jones, Advisors: Dr P Bhiel, Dr H Hunt, Dr L Janik

Liu X, PhD thesis (submitted 2009): Food Webs, Subsistence and Changing Culture: The development of early farming communities in the Chifeng region, North China. Supervisor: Prof. MK Jones, Advisor: Dr TC O'Connell

Others

Przelomska N (2015) Out of China: the genetics of flowering time adaptation in an ancient crop species. Paper presented at the British Ecological Society Annual Meeting 2015, Edinburgh, UK

Jones PJ (2015) The stories told by seeds and bones: testing 'climate = collapse' in the Indus. Lecture given at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK

Jones PJ (2015) Climate change, water management and rice in the Indus - an isotopic perspective. Paper presented at Early Rice Symposium, UCL, London

Jones MK (2015) Food globalisation in prehistory. Lecture given at Lanzhou University, China

Przelomska N (2015) Foxtail millet and water scarcity – could a staple food from prehistory reclaim popularity in our climatically instable future? Cambridge Centre for Climate Science Student Symposium - Past, Present, Future Climate, Cambridge, UK

Lister DL, Jones H, Oliveira HR, Cockram J and Jones MK (2015) West to East: The Spread of Wheat and Barley Cultivation across Eurasia. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, USA

Lightfoot E (2015) Why move starchy cereals? Stable isotope evidence for the consumption of millet across Eurasia in prehistory. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, USA

Jones PJ (2015) A climatic imperative? Testing the climate:crop connection in the archaeological record. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, USA

Przelomska N (2015) Human dispersal or environmental selection? Using genetics to decode diversity in millet landraces across Eurasia. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, USA

An T (2015) Considering Chinese element in Europe before the 2nd millennium BC. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, USA

Lister DL (2015) The arrival of barley in the Tibetan plateau - an archaeogenetics perspective. Paper presented at the Tibetan Plateau and Bronze Age Globalization workshop, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Jones MK (2015) Food globalisation in prehistory. Paper presented at the Tibetan Plateau and Bronze Age Globalization workshop, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Jones MK (2015) Up stream and down stream: water use and food globalisation in prehistory. Paper presented at the Tibetan Plateau and Bronze Age Globalization workshop, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri, USA

Jones MK (2015) Food globalisation in prehistory. Lecture given at the German Archaeological Institute.

An T (2015) A comparative study on painted potteries from Southeast Europe and central China. Talk given at Downing College, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2015) Food globalisation in prehistory. Elsey Zeitlyn Lecture, British Academy, London, UK, also delivered at Washington, St Louis, and Peking University

An T (2015) Food and Pot: Considering 'Chinese Element' in Europe before the 2nd Millennium BC. Lecture given at Downing College, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2014) Food globalisation in prehistory. Paper presented in the Garrod Seminar Series, Cambridge, UK.

Lister DL (2014) Studying the spread of agriculture during prehistory using crop archaeogenetics. Lecture given to the Archaeological Field Group, Cambridge, UK

Jones PJ (2014) Isotopic insights into the Indus world: water management, climatic impacts and agricultural resilience from Harappa to the Haryana plains. Paper presented at the Allchin Symposium, Cambridge, UK

An T (2014) Why 'Chinese Element' in Europe before the 2nd Millennium BC? Lecture given at Lanzhou University, China

Przelomska N (2014) The molecular ecology of foxtail millet flowering time. Paper presented at the 2nd International Millet workshop, Aohan, China

Jones P (2014) Shifting rain and changing crops? Millets, climate change and food security in the greater Indus, 3000-1500BC. Paper presented at the 2nd International Millet workshop, Aohan, China

Lightfoot E, Liu X and Jones MK (2014) Why move starchy cereals? A review of the isotopic evidence for millet consumption across Eurasia. Paper presented at the 2nd International Millet workshop, Aohan, China

Liu X (2014) Was it domesticated? Millet as human staple, animal fodder and a plant. Paper presented at the 2nd International Millet workshop, Aohan, China

Jones MK (2014) Food Globalisation in Prehistory: Mongolian crops and Eurasian contacts. Paper presented at the 2nd International Millet workshop, Aohan, China

Jones MK (2014) Amu Menggu, in China, Asia, and Europe'. Paper presented at the Origins of Mongolian Culture, Hailar, China

Lister D, Jones H, Cockram J and Jones MK (2014) Analysis of DNA polymorphisms in historic and ancient plant DNA using the KASP SNP genotyping platform. Paper presented at the 6th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, University of Basel, Switzerland

Jones MK (2014) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Paper presented at Darwin College, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2014) The role of minor crops in the development of Eurasian agriculture. Paper presented at the SEAA6, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Przelomska N (2014) Foxtail millet: Could the sustenance of our ancestors become a health food and contribute to food diversity in the future? Paper presented at Global Food Security Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives Seminar, Cambridge, UK

Lister DL (2014) Analysis of DNA polymorphisms in historic and ancient plant DNA using the KASP SNP genotyping platform. Paper presented at Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Genomics Congress, London, UK

Liu X (2014) Introduction: Plant domestication - morphology, genetics and social context. Paper presented at the SAA annual conference, Austin, USA

Jones MK (2014) The role of minor crops in the development of Eurasian agriculture. Paper presented at the SAA annual conference, Austin, USA

Przelomska N (2014) Diversity of flowering time in Setaria italica and Setaria viridis from across Eurasia. Poster presented at II. International Symposium: Genetic Variation of Flowering Time Genes and Applications for Crop Improvement, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Liu X (2014) Structure of everyday life. Lecture given at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK

Przelomska N (2014) Diversity of flowering time in Setaria italica and Setaria viridis from across Eurasia. Poster presented at the 1st International Setaria Genetics Conference, Beijing, China

Jones PJ (2014) Isotopes in the Indus: water stress, agriculture and the Indian Summer Monsoon, 3000-1500 BC. Lecture given at University of Oxford, UK

Lister DL (2013) Phylogeographic studies of the spread of wheat and barley across Eurasia. Paper presented at the 7th International Triticeae Symposium, Chengdu, China

Jones MK (2013) The Past and Future Role of Minor Cereals. Paper presented at the People and Plants Conference, CRASSH, Cambridge, UK

Przelomska N (2013) Genetics of flowering time in Setaria italica and its wild progenitor Setaria viridis. Poster presented at the 57th Meeting of the Ecological Genetics Group, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

Liu X (2013) What I have eaten this summer: Stone Age food networks. Public lecture given in 'One Way Street' bookshop, Beijing

Jones MK (2013) Tracing the crops: The combined evidence of archaeobotany and genetics. Seminar given in CASS Workshop of Bio-archaeology/FOGLIP, Beijing

Liu X (2013) Food Globalisation of Prehistory: Top down or bottom up? Seminar given in CASS Workshop of Bio-archaeology/FOGLIP, Beijing

Liu X (2013) Millet as staple: Food and environment of prehistoric Chifeng. Paper presented in 20th International Symposium of Hongshan Culture, Chifeng

Jones MK (2013) Turning tables on the spread of agricultural knowledge. Keynote speech in 20th International Symposium of Hongshan Culture, Chifeng

Liu X (2013) Millet as staple: Food, environment and nitrogen availability. Lecture given at Museum of Ethnography, Hulunbeier

Jones MK (2013) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at Museum of Ethnography, Hulunbeier

Jones MK (2013) Turning tables on the spread of agricultural knowledge. Public lecture given in Aohan Banner, Chifeng

Lightfoot E, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) Why Move Starchy Cereals? A Review of the Isotopic Evidence for Millet Consumption Across Erasia. Paper presented at the Millet workshop, Unilever (Colworth) and NIAB Innovation Farm (Cambridge)

Liu X, Hunt HV and Jones MK (2013) Loss of seed dispersal: Has broomcorn millet been domesticated? Paper presented at the Millet workshop, Unilever (Colworth) and NIAB Innovation Farm (Cambridge)

Jones MK, Ujeed H and Sneath D (2013) Millet and mobility: Considerations of the archaeology and ethnography of millet farming. Paper presented at the Millet workshop, Unilever (Colworth) and NIAB Innovation Farm (Cambridge)

Hunt HV (2013) Evidence from microsatellite markers for spatial structuring of genetic diversity in broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria italica). Paper presented at the Millet workshop, Unilever (Colworth) and NIAB Innovation Farm (Cambridge)

Lightfoot E, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) Why Move Starchy Cereals? A Review of the Isotopic Evidence for Millet Consumption Across Erasia. Paper presented at the 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK

Liu X, Lightfoot E and Jones MK (2013) Food networks in prehistory: Top down or bottom up? Paper presented at the 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK

Jones MK, Lightfoot E and Liu X (2013) Food globalization in prehistory: Evidence from crops, bones and isotopes. Paper presented at the 82nd Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK

Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) Food globalization in Prehistory across Eurasia. Paper presented at IWGP, Thessaloniki

Jones MK (2013) Food globalization in prehistory: Tracing the Trans-Eurasian exchange of farming resources in prehistory. Lecture given at the Institute of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø, Norway

Hunt HV (2013) A New World genome in an Old World cereal? Cytological and DNA sequence evidence for genome relationships in proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) and its relatives. Paper presented at Monocots V conference, New York, USA

Lister D (2013) Studies of the spread of agriculture during prehistory utilizing crop germplasm and herbarium resources. Seminar given at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Jones MK (2013) A trans-Eurasian exchange of prehistoric crops. Lecture given at the SAA annual conference, Honolulu

Staff RA, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Hunt HV, Liu X and Jones MK (2013) Direct radiocarbon dating implies a re-evaluation of the early chronology of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Europe. Poster presented at the International Symposium 14C and Archaeology, Gent, Belgium

Jones MK (2013) Food economics in (pre-)historical times. Lecture given at the PAGES 4th Open Science Meeting, GOA

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2013) Pioneers of Pan-Asian contact: Timing for the east-west spread of the broomcorn millet crop (Panicum miliaceum) to Europe. Talk given at the World Archaeological Congress, Jordan

Jones MK (2012) Before the Silk Road: Food globalisation in prehistory. Lecture given at the University of Pittsburgh, USA

Jones MK (2012) The role of minor crops in the development of Eurasian agriculture. Lecture given at the 4th International EcoSummit, Columbus Ohio, USA

Lister DL (2012) How the East was won: travels of cereals in Eurasia. Lecture given at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK

Lister DL (2012) Crop phylogeographic studies of the spread of agriculture utilizing VIR germplasm and herbarium resources. Talk given at the Vavilov Conference, St Petersburg, Russia

Lister DL (2012) West to east - tracing the spread of agriculture through Eurasia. Seminar given at Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden

Jones MK (2012) The past and future of minor cereals. Lecture given at the University of Cambridge in celebration of Jane Renfrew

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2012) The Steppe Corridor of European Agriculture. Lecture given at the University of Cambridge in celebration of Jane Renfrew

Jones MK (2012) Plants and the Silk Road. Lecture given at the University of Cambridge, UK

Liu X (2012) Food web, Production and Consumption: The Long Durée of the Chinese Neolithic. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archeology, Beijing, China

Lightfoot E (2012) Climate, Crops and Contacts: The Influence of Climate upon the Cross-Continental Dynamics of Agriculture in Gansu Province, China. Poster presented at the 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archeology, Beijing, China

Jones MK (2012) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archeology, Beijing, China

Lister DL, Oliveira HR and Jones MK (2012) What can Ancient and Historic Plant DNA Studies Tell us about the Globalization of Cereals in Prehistory? Paper presented at the 5th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology, Beijing, China

Jones MK (2012) Plants and the Silk Road. Lecture given at the Archaeological Research Institute, Chengdu, China

Jones MK (2012) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at the University of Exeter, UK

Jones MK (2012) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at the University of Oxford, UK

Jones MK (2012) Millet and Mobility: Considerations of the Archaeology and Ethnography of Millet Farming. Lecture given at the University of Stanford, California

Jones MK (2012) Before the Silk Road: Tracing the Earliest East West Contacts. Lecture given at Darwin College, Cambridge

Lister DL, Hunt HV, Lightfoot E, Liu X, Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute G, Jones MK (2012) Food Globalization in Prehistory. Poster presentation at the 5th Archaeozoology and Genetics Working Group in Basel, Switzerland

Hunt H (2012) Tracking the Spread of Cereals Across Eurasia Using Genetic Markers and Other Archaeological Science Tools. Lecture given at Escuela Politecnica Superior, Huesca, University of Zaragoza, Spain

Liu X (2012) China Before China: Structural History of Chinese Archaeology. Lecture given at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2012) Food Globalisation in Prehistory: In Search of Archaeobotanical Remains of Domesticated Plants at the Botai Site. Paper presented at the International Conference Dedicated to A X Margulan, Kokshetau, Kazakhstan

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2012) Stables Isotopes in Archaeology. Lecture given at Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan

Lightfoot E (2012) Stable Isotopes in Archaeology. Lecture given at 'Archaeological Expertise', Almaty, Kazakhstan

Liu X (2012) Food Globalization in Prehistory: Isotopes and Archaeobotany. Lecture given at the British Museum, UK

Liu X (2012) Food Globalization in Prehistory: Isotopes and Archaeobotany. Lecture given at Bryant College, RI, USA

Liu X (2012) Food web, Production and Consumption: the Longue durée of the Neolithic China. Lecture given at University of Stanford, USA

Liu X (2012) Food web, Production and Consumption: the Longue durée of Chinese Neolithic. Lecture given at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK

Lister DL (2012) West to East: Tracing the Spread of Cereal Cultivation across Eurasia. Lecture given at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK

Hunt H (2012) Crop Pioneers Across Eurasia: Insights from Phylogeographic Analysis using SSRs. Lecture given at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2011) Food Globalisation in Prehistory: Why Change your Source of Starch? Lecture given at CRASSH, University of Cambridge

Liu X (2011) Food Globalisation in Prehistory: New Approaches to Chinese Prehistory. Lecture given at University College London, UK

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2011) How and When Did the First Chinese Crops Arrive in Europe? Lecture given at Darwin College, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2011) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2011) Food on the Move. Lecture given at Languard Fort, Felixstowe, UK (part of the Cultural Olympiad)

Lister D (2011) Crop Archaeogenetics in the Study of Food Globalisation in East Asia. Lecture given at Jilin University, China

Jones MK (2011) Before the Silk Road: Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at University of Lanzhou, China

Liu X (2011) Subsistence and Changing Culture: New Approaches to Chinese Prehistory. Lecture given at University of Lanzhou, China

Jones MK (2011) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at Kokse Academy, Koksetau, Kazakhstan

Jones MK (2011) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at University of Cape Town, South Africa

Jones MK (2011) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at University of York, UK

Lister D (2010) Crop Archaeogenetics in the Study of Food Globalisation in East Asia. Lecture given at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK

Jones MK (2010) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at The Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan

Jones MK (2010) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at Northwest University, Xi'an, China

Lister D (2010) Studies of the spread of agriculture across Eurasia. Lecture given at Kunming Institute of Botany, China

Jones MK (2010) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at Inner Mongolia Museum, Hohhot, China

Jones MK (2010) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given in Ordos, China

Jones MK (2010) Food Globalisation in Prehistory. Lecture given at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Hunt H and Jones MK (2010) Experimental Approaches to Understanding Variation in Grain Size in Panicum miliaceum and its Relevance for Interpreting Archaeobotanical Assemblages. Poster presented at the 15th Symposium of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G (2008) When and How did Agriculture Begin in the European Steppes? Paper presented at The Eastern European Plain on the Eve of Agriculture conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Hunt H, Liu X, Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G and Jones MK: Corridors across the Eurasian Steppe: The Ancestry and Neolithic Record of Broomcorn Millet (Panicum miliaceum L.). Paper presented at the 14th Symposium of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany, Krakow, Poland