Dr Amy Gray Jones
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology; Programme Leader MA Archaeology of Death and Memory
Dr Amy Gray-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Programme Leader for the MA Archaeology of Death and Memory at the University of Chester, UK. She is an internationally active research scholar, publishing and presenting at conferences, and securing academic and public funding for research fieldwork and impact projects. She teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate Archaeology programmes and supervises postgraduate research students.
Dr Gray-Jones is an experienced lecturer in archaeology dedicated to exploring the relationship between theory and practice. Since 2013 she has designed and delivered modules for the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on mortuary archaeology, the archaeology of human remains, bioarchaeology, and the archaeology of the body as well as British and European prehistory. With a background in professional archaeology, she also leads on embedding careers and employability initiatives and work-based/experiential learning within the archaeology programmes. She has examined and supervised postgraduate taught and research students on projects ranging from bioarchaeology in the media to the handling of the dead body in Roman Britain.
Dr Gray-Jones is a funerary archaeologist and human osteologist specialising in funerary taphonomy and the analysis of disarticulated and fragmented human remains, particularly from the Mesolithic of north-west Europe. She also co-directs research into early Holocene wetland landscapes and the hunter-gatherer communities of Britain.
Cobb, H. and Gray Jones, A. (2018). Being Mesolithic in life and death. Journal of World Prehistory 31 (3), 367-383.
Needham, A., Croft, S., Kröger, R., Robson, H. K., Rowley, C. C. A., Taylor, B., Gray Jones, A. and Conneller, C. (2018). The application of micro-Raman for the analysis of ochre artefacts from Mesolithic palaeo-lake Flixton. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 17, 650-656.
Gray Jones, A. (2017). Cremation and the use of fire in Mesolithic mortuary practice. In Cerezo-Roman, J. I., Wessman, A. and Williams, H. (eds.). Cremation and the Archaeology of Death, pp. 27-51. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Connell, B., Gray Jones, A., Redfern, R. and Walker, D. (2012). A bioarchaeological study of medieval burials on the site of St Mary Spital: Excavations at Spitalfields Market, London E1, 1991–2007. MoLA Monograph 60. London: Museum of London Archaeology.
Taylor, B. and Gray Jones, A. 2009. Definitely a pit, possibly a house? Recent excavations at Flixton School House Farm in the Vale of Pickering. Mesolithic Miscellany 20 (2): 21-26.
Gray Jones, A. & Walker D. 2007. ‘Tuberculosis at Spitalfields, London: an insight into medieval urban living’. In Robson Brown, K.A., & Roberts, A.M. (eds.). BABAO 2004. Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology, University of Bristol. Oxford: BAR International Series, 1623.
Gray Jones, A. 2003. ‘The human skeletal remains’. In Keevill, G.D. Archaeological Investigations in 2001 at the Abbey Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Oxoniensia. Vol. LXVIII: 347-352.
- BSc (Hons) (University College London)
- MSc (Bradford)
- PhD (Manchester)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy