Dr Jennifer 'JB' Bates

🚨Just in time for New Year: my book is being released! "The Origins of Agriculture in the Bronze Age Indus Civilization" explores the origins & uses of #plants in the #IndusCivilization. Published with @CambridgeUP , it synthesizes #genetics, #archaeobotany, & #archaeology.

Final paper session of #IWGP2025 in #Groningen and we're continuing with domestication! Rethinking some theory, exploring South American cotton, the origins of poppy and looking to Neltuma chilensis management. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Global plant domestication session has a couple of papers before lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Soybeans in China and enset in Ethiopia are the foci, and how we resolve their origins and spread. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

A sleepy morning after the #IWGP2025 party! We're back with more #food papers from the Americas and Europe. Starch, phytoliths, seeds and archaeochemicals...and cesspits! #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Incredible to be able to see the #Groningen #archaeobotany and #ethnobotany reference collection while at #IWGP2025. Truly amazing and extensive #seed, wood, pollen and more material. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

More #food #archaeobotany at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Case studies from China, Britain, Slovenia, Iraq and Alaska. Cooking methods, ingredients, and ideas of taste are all 'food for thought'. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Food is the theme for today at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. Terminology, standardisation, experimentation, and methods are the key takeaways. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #food

Excellent paper by PhD student @maechu_conte from @SeoulNatlUni at #IWGP2025 on seed impressions in ceramics. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #Groningen

Last session for the day and it's on #openscience in #archaeobotany. FAIR, CARE and interoperable principles are all on the table at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Apologies for not posting after coffee - I was chairing! Back now with more methods - #phytoliths, micro-contextualism, preservation experiments in silos and #rice paddy ecologies. #IWGP2025 #Groningen #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

Huge congratulations to Emma Karoune for winning the inaugural #IWGP2025 Lisa Lodwick Award. The award honours those who support accessibility, open science and inclusively in #archaeobotany, following in Lisa's trailblazing footsteps. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Morning from #IWGP2025 in #Groningen! I'm in the methods session and we're thinking about proteins, sedaDNA, germination identification, millet dispersal, ceramic impressions and c14 in ceramic tempers. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

More #plant management and #Resilience at #IWGP2025. Thinking through weed floras, date palm in the Nile, geophytes, azuki beans and fire propagation, and Australian Aboriginal food histories amongst much more. #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #ethnobotany

Back from coffee and shifting to the #plant management session. Grapes, olives, wetlands and arable farming are all on the books as well as #archaeobotany, #isotopes, #archaeogenetics, #phytoliths, #charcoal. #IWGP2025 #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Amazing talk at #IWGP2025 from Indica Project member Kim Pangyu from @SeoulNatlUni on lentils cooking experiments in #India #archaeology. #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

I'm in the parallel session at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen this morning & we're thinking about plant movements. "Cerealization", Mongolian crop introductions, lentils in India, Balkan millets and wheat in Italy are all topics covered #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

Icebreaker for #IWGP2025 at the beautiful #Groningen Botanical Gardens. Drinks and snacks in the Chinese gardens while talking #plants - fantastic! #archaeology #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience

Final part of #IWGP2025 for today and we move to Africa, the Levant, Saudi Arabia and South Asia for more urban #archaeobotany. Subsistence strategies, storage, arid adaptation and fabric are some of the many topics covered. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience #Groningen

Back after lunch at #IWGP2025 in #Groningen for more on urban #archaeobotany. Big data mining, Bronze Age Mediterranean multiproxies, dung in #Italy, and cereals and theoretical approaches in #Egypt. #archaeology #archaeologicalscience

1st day (morning session) at #IWGP2025 is on urban landscapes and we have talks on the Late #Neolithic ovens, Bulgarian city walls, Celtic oppidum, #Vikings pit houses, and Ephesos. #Groningen #archaeobotany #archaeologicalscience #archaeology

Welcome to #IWGP2025! The conference is beginning with a link down memory lane from the 6th meeting in 1983 held in #Groningen... to the conference today. #archaeobotany #archaeology #archaeologicalscience