(since 2022 when lab opened)

Bates, J., 2025. The origins of agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus civilization. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.

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, 100080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2025.100080

Bates, J., Morrison, K.D., Madella, M., Hill, A.C., Whitehouse, N.J., Abro, T., Ajithprasad, P., Anupama, K., Casile, A., Chandio, A., Chatterjee, S., Gangopadhyay, K., Hammer, E., Haricharan, S., Hazarika, M., Korisettar, R., Kumar, A., Lancelotti, C., Pappu, S., Parque, O., Petrie, C.A., Premathilake, R., Selvakumar, V., Sen, S., Spate, M., Trivedi, M., Veesar, G.M., Vinayak, V., 2025. Early to Mid-Holocene land use transitions in South Asia: A new archaeological synthesis of potential human impacts. PLOS ONE 20, e0313409. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313409

Bates, J., Singh, V.K., Singh, R.N., Singh, M., Mohan, B., Chakradhari, S., Conte, M., Gankhuyag, O., James, N., Jollu, R., Konar, S., Kumar, S., Pandey, A.K., Pangyu, K., Singh, A.P., Singh, A., Singh, S.K., 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

Key, A., Clark, J., Lauer, T., Bates, J., Sier, M.-J., Nichols, C., Martín-Ramos, C., Cebeiro, A., Williams, E., Kim, S., Stileman, F., Mika, A., Pope, M., Bridgland, D., Redhouse, D., Leonardi, M., Smith, G.M., Proffitt, T., 2025. Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK). Nat Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02829-x

Singh, V.K., Bates, J., Singh, R.N., Singh, M., Mohan, B., Chakradhari, S., Singh, S.K., Chung, H.H., Conte, M., Gankhuyang, O., James, N., Jung, Y., Jollu, R., Jung, S., Kim, J., Kim, P., Kim, S., Singh, U., Konar, S., Kumar, S., Pandey, A.K., Robinson, L.A., Seo, Y., Singh, A.P., Singh, A., Kumar, D., Joglekar, P.P., 2024. Excavations at Tokwa (2023-2024), Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh. Man and Environment XLIX, 20–32.

Hill, C., Madella, M., Whitehouse, N.J., Jiménez-Arteaga, C., Hammer, E., Bates, J., Welton, L., Biagetti, S., Hilpert, J., Morrison, K.D., 2024. Per Capita Land Use through Time and Space: A New Database for (Pre)Historic Land-Use Reconstructions. Land 13, 1144. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081144

Bates, J., Singh, V.K., Singh, R.N., Singh, M., Mohan, B., Chakradhari, S., Singh, A.P., Conte, M., Oh, Y., 2024. Radiocarbon dates from the archaeological site of Sakas, Bihar, India. Radiocarbon 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2024.42

Bates, J., Jiménez-Arteaga, C., 2024. Comparable quantification methodologies in archaeobotany – a work-in-progress and debate. Veget Hist Archaeobot. 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

Conte, M., Bates, J., 2024. Holocene utopias and dystopias: Views of the Holocene in the Anthropocene and their impact on defining the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review 20530196241245650. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196241245650

Riris, P., Silva, F., Crema, E., Palmisano, A., Robinson, E., Siegel, P.E., French, J.C., Jørgensen, E.K., Maezumi, S.Y., Solheim, S., Bates, J., Davies, B., Oh, Y., 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

Bates, J., Choi, J., 2023. Different strategies in Indus agriculture: the goals and outcomes of farming choices. Antiquity 1–13. https://doi.org/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. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia 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. Front. Ecol. Evol. 10, 924977. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.924977

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 in the Indus Civilization, South Asia ca. 3200–1500 bc: a critical review. Veget Hist Archaeobot. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00842-1

Angourakis, A., Bates, J., Baudouin, J.-P., Giesche, A., Walker, J.R., Ustunkaya, M.C., Wright, N., Singh, R.N., 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. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat5020025

Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, A.C., Riris, P., Vander Linden, M., Bates, J., Cantarello, E., Contreras, D.A., Crabtree, S.A., Crema, E.R., Edwards, M., Filatova, T., Fitzhugh, B., Fluck, H., Freeman, J., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krzyzanska, M., Lawrence, D., Mackay, H., Madella, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Marchant, R., Monsarrat, S., Morrison, K.D., Rabett, R., Roberts, P., Saqalli, M., Stafford, R., Svenning, J.-C., Whithouse, N.J., Williams, A., 2022. Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability 14, 10234. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610234

Morrison, K.D., Sinopoli, C., Wilcox Black, K., Trivedi, M., Bauer, A.M., Reddy, S.N., Srinivasin, S., Lycett, M.T., Haricharan, S., Bates, J., Kashyap, A., 2022. From the Southern Neolithic to the Iron Age: a View from Kadebakele, in: Korisettar, R. (Ed.), Beyond Stones and More Stones. The Mythic Society, Bengaluru.