Dr. Eric Jones (Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University) is an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in demographic archaeology and settlement pattern analysis. He has conducted research in the Northeast and the Great Basin regions of North America, and his current work examines the population trends and the ecological relationships that influenced the settlement patterns of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). This work is conducted using GPS mapping and surveying techniques in the field and geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze the resulting data. The latter is part of Dr. Jones’s wider interest in the uses of GIS to reconstruct past behaviors and lifeways.
Dr. Jones teaches courses in archaeological methods and theory and North American prehistory. His other research and teaching interests include culture contact and colonization, the ecology of swidden agriculture, ethnohistory, the working relationship between archaeologists and Native Americans, and the anthropology of sports.
In press Jones, Eric E. Population History of the Onondaga and Oneida Iroquois, ad 1500-1700. American Antiquity.
2009 Jones, Eric E. An Analysis of the Factors Influencing Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Iroquois Settlement Locations. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Link
2006 Jones, Eric E. Using Viewshed Analysis to Explore Settlement Choice: A Case Study of the Onondaga Iroquois. American Antiquity 71:523-538.
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Eric Jones
Anthropology Department
PO Box 7807
Winston-Salem, NC 27109
Phone:336.758.5469
Email: jonesee@wfu.edu