Kara Jones (they/them) is an archaeologist with eleven years’ experience working in the Mojave and Great Basin, with work experience as a crew chief leading fieldwork, lab manager, and curation assistant. They are a doctoral student at UNLV, where they earned their M.A. in 2023, and earned their undergraduate degree at CSU, Bakersfield. Jones is one of the archaeological collections co-managers at UNLV and manages Barbara Roth's lab. Their current research focus is on the changing use of Holocene lakes utilizing lithic analysis, GIS, and landscape theory. Jones has been known most recently as a shrimp enthusiast, studying tadpole shrimp and other freshwater crustacean capture features along Holocene lakes in California and Nevada.