{"id":152090,"date":"2019-07-16T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=152090"},"modified":"2019-07-16T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:05:22","slug":"memoriam-brian-jones-state-archaeologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/07\/memoriam-brian-jones-state-archaeologist\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Brian Jones, State Archaeologist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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State Archaeologist Brian Jones, associate extension professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

State Archaeologist Brian Jones ’98 Ph.D., associate extension professor of anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, passed away this month. Jones led the Connecticut Office of the State Archaeologist since 2014, and received his Ph.D. in anthropology from UConn in 1998.<\/p>\n

Jones\u2019s passion for Connecticut history and archaeology made him a beloved mentor and educator.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian was a scholar, a teacher, and a very thoughtful, kind man,\u201d said Pamela Erickson, professor and head of the Department of Anthropology. \u201cHe was such an asset to Anthropology, to UConn, and to Connecticut. He will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBrian was (and will always be) a true archaeologist passionate about his work, happily sifting through the earth and finding some new clue about our shared history,\u201d said Gary Aronsen, a research associate in the Department of Anthropology. \u201cHis enthusiasm was evident and infectious.\u201d<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the American Indian College Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A celebration of Jones\u2019s life will be held August 4, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. in the upstairs hall at the Irish American Home Society in Glastonbury.<\/p>\n

Read Jones\u2019s full obituary<\/a> and memoriam<\/a> in the Hartford Courant<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jones, a professor of anthropology, received his Ph.D. in anthropology at UConn and led the Office of the State Archaeologist for five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":50011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-152090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 22:51:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/50011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152090"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=152090"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=152090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}