SNU Archaeological Labs

Prof. Bates aim for high impact journals that allow for open access or self-archiving with my university, but also regularly publish in regional/national journals to ensure accessibility to data and interpretations.

*co-first authored papers – additional authors not listed.

Peer-Reviewed Monographs

Peer Reviewed Articles

Bates, J. […] Kwak, S. Accepted pending revisions. The intersection between land use and climate change in the Korean Peninsular between 12 kya and 3 kya, a new synthesis of potential human impacts. PLOS One.

Bates, J. 2025. What’s in a name? The messy taxonomy of Oryza sp. and how it has impacted our archaeobotanical modelling of rice domestication. Quaternary Environments and Humans 3(3) 100080. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100080)

Key, A., Clark, J., Lauer, T., Bates, J. […] Proffitt, T. 2025. Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Old Park (Canterbury, UK). Nature EcolEvol (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02829-x)

Bates, J., […] Singh, U. 2025. Hoofprints in the yard: The discovery of bovid, caprid and (large) feline/canid tracks in an external courtyard from the early Iron Age of Tokwa, India. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports 66 105327. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105327)

Bates, J., […] Vinayak. V. 2025. Early to Mid-Holocene Land Use Transitions in South Asia: a new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts. PLOS One. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313409)

Singh, V.K., Bates, J. […] P.P. Joglekar. 2024. Excavations at Tokwa (2023-2024), Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh. Man and Environment. XLIX(2):20-32.

Singh, M., Singh, V.K., Chakradhari, S., Mohan, B., Singh, A.P., Bates, J., Singh, R.N. 2024. Reconnaissance Survey of Ramdihra: An Archaeological Site in Sasaram (Rohtas) District, Bihar. Heritage: Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Archaeology 11.1: 378-389.

Bates, J., Singh, V.K. Chatterjee, G., Conte, M., Joglekar, PP., Oh, Y., Mohan, B., Chakradhari, S., Singh, M., Singh, R.N. 2024. Radiocarbon dates from the archaeological site of Sakas, Bihar, India. Radiocarbon. 66(2):267-279. (https://doi:10.1017/RDC.2024.42)

Riris, P., […] Bates J., […] Ren X. 2024. Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations. Nature. 629:837–842.(https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07354-8)

Conte, M., Bates J. 2024. Holocene utopias and dystopias: views of the Holocene in the Anthropocene and their impact on defining the Anthropocene. Anthropocene Review. 11(3):658-675.(https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196241245650)

Bates J., Jiménez-Arteaga, C. 2024. Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate.
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 33:671–686.
(https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00982-6)

Bates, J., Choi, J. 2023. Different strategies in Indus agriculture: The goals and outcomes of farming choices. Antiquity, 1-13.
(doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.134)

Bates, J. 2023. A Materiality Approach to Containers in the Indus Tradition. Archaeological Research in Asia 33.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2022.100418)

Bates, J. 2022. The Origins and Development of Agriculture in South Asia. Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press.
(https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.553)

Bates J. 2022. The fits and starts of Indian rice domestication – how the movement of rice across northwest India impacted domestication pathways and agricultural stories. Frontiers of Ecology and Environment 10:924977.
(https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.924977)

Silva, F., […] Bates, J., […] Williams, A. 2022. Developing transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges: the need to model socio-
environmental systems in the longue durée. Sustainability. 14(16), 10234. (https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610234)

Angourakis, A., Bates, J. […] Petrie, C.A. 2022. Weather, land and crops in the Indus Village model: A simulation framework for crop dynamics under environmental variability and climate change in the Indus Civilisation. Quaternary. 5(2):25. (https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5020025)

Bates, J., Wilcox Black, K., Morrison, K.D. 2022. Millet Bread and Pulse Dough from Early Iron Age South India: Charred Food Lumps as Culinary Indicators. Journal of Archaeological Science 137: 105531. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105531)

Bates, J. 2022. Vitis sp., Vitaceae and Viticulture: exploring the identification of ‘grapes’ in the Indus Civilization, South Asia c.3200-1500BC. Vegetation, History and Archaeobotany 31: 205-220. (doi:10.1007/s00334-021-00842-1)

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Alam, A., Bates, J. […] Walker, J.R. 2021. Living in the hinterland II: survey and excavations at Masudpur 2018. Indian Journal of Archaeology. 6.4: 39-54.

Bates, J., Lancelotti, C., Suryanarayan, A., Madella, M. 2021. The challenge of the unique and unprecedented, comment on Agnihorti et al. (2021). Journal
of Archaeological Science Reports. 39: 103174 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103174)

Bates, J., Petrie, C.A., Ballantyne, R., Lancelotti, C., Saraswat, K.S., Pathak, A., Singh, R.N. 2021. Cereal Grains and Grain Pulses: Reassessing the archaeobotany of the Indus Civilisation and Painted Grey Ware period occupation at Alamgirpur district Meerut U.P. Indian Journal of Archaeology. 6(2): 495-522.

Bates, J. 2021. Is domestication speciation? The implications of a messy domestication model in the Holocene. Agronomy 11(4):784.
(https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11040784)

Morrison. K.D., Hammer, E., Boles, O., Madella, M., Whitehouse, M., Gaillard-Lemdahl, M.-J., Bates, J., Vander Linden, M., Merlo, S., Yao, A., Popova, L., Hill, A.C., et al. * 2021. Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: a new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization. PloSOne. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246662)

Bates, J. 2021. Fish Net and Line Fibers in the Indus Civilization (c.3200-1300BC): exploring the possible materials that Indus fisherfolk may have used as part of their fishing strategies. Archaeological Research in Asia 25: 100237. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2020.100237)

Angourakis, A., Bates, J. […] Petrie, C. 2020. How to ‘downsize’ a complex society: an agent-based modelling approach to assess the resilience
of Indus Civilisation settlements to past climate change. Environmental Research Letters 15: 115004. (https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abacf9)

Bates, J. 2020. Kitchen Gardens, Wild Forage and Tree Fruits: a theory on the role of the Zaid season in the Indus Civilisation (c.3200-1300BC). Archaeological Research in Asia 21: 100175. (doi:10.1016/j.ara.2019.100175)

Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., François, P., Hoyer, D., Alves, A., Baines, J., Barker, D., Bartkowiak, M., Bates, J., […] Xie, L. 2019. An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank. Journal of Cognitive Historiography. 5.1-2:
(doi:10.1558/jch.39395)

Bates, J. 2019. The Published Archaeobotanical Data from the Indus Civilisation, South Asia, c.3200-1500BC. Journal of Open Archaeological Data 7:5. (http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.57)

Bates, J. 2019. Oilseeds, Spices and Flavours in the Indus Civilization. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 24: 879–887.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.02.033)

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Alam, A., Bates, J. […] Walker, J.R. 2018. Living in the hinterland: survey and excavations at Lohari Ragho 2015‐2017. Purattatva 48:130-141.

Lui, X., Lister, D., Zhao, Z., Petrie, C.A., Zeng, X., Jones, P.J., Staff, R.A., Pokharia, A.K., Bates, J. […] Jones, M.K. 2017. Journey to the East: diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS ONE 12(11):e0187405. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0187405)

Petrie, C.A. & Bates, J., 2017. ‘Multi-cropping’, intercropping and adaptation to variable environments in Indus South Asia. Journal of World Prehistory 30(2): 81-130. (doi:10.1007/s10963-017-9101-z)

Bates, J., Petrie, C.A., & Singh, R.N. 2017. Cereals, Calories and Change: Exploring approaches to quantification in Indus archaeobotany. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10(7): 1703–1716.
(doi:10.1007/s12520-017-0489-2)

Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., French, C.A.I., Hodell, D., Bates, J., […] Tewari, R. 2017. Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: investigating Land, Water and Settlement in Indus northwest India. Current Anthropology 58(1): 1-30.(http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/690112)

Bates, J., Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N. 2017. Approaching Rice Domestication in South Asia: new evidence from Indus settlements in northern India. Journal of Archaeological Science 78: 193-201. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.04.018)

Bates, J., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A. 2017. Exploring Indus Crop Processing: combining phytoliths and macrobotanical analysis to consider the
organisation of agriculture in northwest India c.3200-1500BC. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26(1): 25-41.
(doi:10.1007/s00334-016-0576-9)

Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Higham, T., Singh, R.N. 2016. Feeding Ancient Cities in South Asia: dating the adoption of rice, millet and tropical pulses in the Indus Civilisation. Antiquity 90 (354): 1489-1504. (https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.210)

Bates, J., & Petrie, C.A. 2016. Phytolith Analysis and the Indus Civilisation: a review. Man and Environment XLI(2): 32-49.

Liu, X., Lister, D.L., Zhao, Z., Staff, R.A., Jones, P.J., Zhou, L., Pokharia, A.K., Petrie, CA., Pathak, A., Lu, H., Motuzaite Matuzeviciut, G., Bates, J. […] Jones, M.K. 2016. The Virtues of Small Grain Size: potential pathways to a distinguishing feature of Asian wheats. Quaternary International 426: 107-119. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.059)

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., French, C.A.I., Bates, J., Lancelotti, C., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., & Redhouse, D.I. 2016. Survey and Excavations at Dabli vas Chugta, Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan, March 24-April 21, Preliminary Report for the Archaeological Survey of India, Indian Archaeology, a Review 2010-2011 pp.75-81.

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Jogeklar, P.P., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Singh, V.K., Singh, D.P. 2013. Survey and Excavations at Bahola, Karnal District, Haryana: a preliminary report. Bhāratī 37:27-37.

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., Bates, J., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Singh, D.P. 2012. Survey and Excavations at Bahola, Karnal District, Haryana: March 27 – April 17, 2012. Manaviki 3.2-4.1:5-11.

Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., French, C.A.I., Bates, J., Lancelotti, C., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Redhouse, D.I. 2012. Survey and Excavations at Dabli vas Chugta, Hanumangarh District, Rajasthan. Puratattva 42:133-147.

Bates, J. 2011. Social Organisation and Change in the Indus Civilisation, phytolith analysis of crop processing aims at Masudpur VII. Bioscience Horizons 4(1):1-12.


Edited Volumes

Bates, J. Under contract. Food, Subsistence and Transition. Volume 4 of Devy, G., et al. What is Civilization. Routledge.

Bates, J. Under contract. Emergence, Collapse, Resilience. Volume 5 of Devy, G., et al. What is Civilization. Routledge.


Peer-Reviewed Chapters

Bates, J. Accepted Pending Revisions. Trees amongst the cereal fields – arboriculture reframed as integral to the food and economic systems of the Indus Civilization of South Asia c.3200-1500 BC. In Clark, B.J., Kahn, J.G., & Hutson, S.R. (eds). Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics – The Book Project. University of Colorado Press.

Bates, J. In Press. 21세기의 고고학 [Archaeology in the 21st Century]. In Choi Young-eun (ed.) 인문학입문서 [Broadening the Horizons of the Humanities]. SNU Press, Seoul. [in Korean].

Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., Alam, A., Bates, J. […] Walker, J.R. In Press. Living in the hinterland: progress of the TwoRains project in 2017 and 2018. In Lefèvre, V., Didier, A., Mutin, B. (ed.). South Asian Archaeology 2018: man and environment in prehistoric and protohistoric South Asia, new perspectives. Turnhout: Brepols Indicopleustoi.

Bates, J. 2024. A Discussion of the Phytolith Assemblage at Must Farm. In Knight, M., Ballantyne, R., Brudenell, M., Cooper, A., Gibson D., Robinson Zeki, I. (eds). The Must Farm Pile-dwelling Settlement. Volume 2: Specialist Reports. CAU Must Farm/Flag Fen Basin Depth & Time Series Volume II. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Bates, J. 2023. The Rise of the Urban Habitats. In G.N. Devy. (ed.) Report on The Origins of Indian Civilisation and Histories of India. People’s Linguistic survey of India.

Bates, J. 2023. Decline and Transformation of Urban Habitats. In G.N. Devy. (ed.) Report on The Origins of Indian Civilisation and Histories of India. People’s Linguistic survey of India.

K.D. Morrison, […] J. Bates, S. Reddy. 2023. From the Southern Neolithic to the Iron Age: a View from Kadebakele, in: Korisettar, R., (Ed.) Beyond Stones and More Stones Vol III. Bengaluru: The Mythic Society. Pp. 146-213.

Bates, J. 2022. The importance of flavoured food: a (cautious) consideration of spices and herbs in Indus Civilization (c.3200-1500BC) recipes. In Valamoti, S.M., Dimoula, A., Ntinou, M. (ed.). Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods. Leiden: Sidestone Press. Pp.139-140

Bates, J. 2020. Life on the farm: how can we reconstruct past agricultural choices? In Durgan, P. (ed.) The Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World. Oxford: ArchaeoPress (Access Archaeology series). pp. 109-111.

McCormick, F., […] Bates, J. […] 2020. Economy, environment and resources in prehistoric Malta. In Malone, C., McLaughlin, R., Stoddart, S., Vella, N. (eds.) Temple Places. Excavating cultural sustainability in prehistoric Malta. Volume 2 of Fragility and Sustainability – Studies on Early Malta, the ERC Funded Project. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monograph Series. pp. 281-306.

Petrie, C.A., Parikh, D., Green, A.S., Bates, J. 2018. Looking beneath the Veneer. Thoughts about Environmental and Cultural Diversity in the Indus Civilization, in: Frenez, D., Jamison, G.M., Law, R., Vidale, M., Meadow, R. (Eds.), Walking With the Unicorn, Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia, Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Felicitation Volume. Oxford: Archaeopress. pp. 453–474.

Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., French, C.A.I., Bates, J., […] Redhouse, D.I. 2017. Land, Water and Settlement in northwest India 2008-2012: a review of progress. In Lefèvre, V., Didier, A., Mutin, B. (ed.) (2017). South Asian Archaeology 2012: man and environment in prehistoric and protohistoric South Asia, new perspectives. Turnhout: Brepols Indicopleustoi. Pp.243-255.

Malone, C., Stoddart, S., Ceccarelli, L., Cenciaioll, L., Duff, P., McCormick, F., Morales, J., Armstrong, S., Bates, J. […] Volhard-Dearman, S. 2014. Beyond Feasting: consumption and lifestyle amongst the invisible Etruscans. In Boyle, K., Rabbett, R., & Hunt, C.O. (eds.) (2014). Living in the Landscape: essays in honour of Graeme Barker. Cambridge: CUP. Pp.257-266.


Open Access Databases

Bates, J. 2019. The Published (to date October 2017) Archaeobotanical Data from the Indus Civilisation, South Asia, c.3200-1500BC. Open Access Dataset stored in the JOAD Dataverse, Harvard Dataverse. (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WSHMAD)


Peer-Reviewed Book Reviews

Bates, J. 2019. A Review of Fruits from the Sands: the Silk Road origins of the food you eat, by Robert Spengler. University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2019. UCL Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes:
(https://uclcaal.org/2020/05/04/fruit-from-the-sands/) (online).

Bates, J. 2016. A Review of Palaeoethnobotanical Study of Ancient Food Crops and the Environmental Context in North-East Africa, 6000 BC – AD 200/300, by Alemseged Beldados. Oxford, BAR International Series 2706,
Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 88, 2015. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (online).

Bates, J. 2013. A Review of Thompson, V.D. & Waggoner, J.C. (eds.) “The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies”, University Press of Florida. Archaeological Review From Cambridge 28.2: 216-220.