A poster for Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz’s lab: the laboratory for socioecological histories of estuarine landscapes.
🐠 🌱 🦪 ⛈️ 🌡️ The other half of our lab w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social! #archaeology #ecology #sustainability #climate
Lab flyer for the Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics lab. Illustrating three key areas of research: Native American politics, Gullah/Geechee societies, and central Asian empires.
🔬🏺We have an Anthropology Day alumni event coming up, and our development team made these great templates for us to showcase our labs. Had a lot of fun distilling the key contributions of the SAHND Lab here at Penn State! #archaeology #ecology #history
High resolution sampling along the growth direction (GD) of limpets (Patella vulgata) and topshells (Phorcus lineatus). The diagram highlights the shell apex and shell edges and shows high resolution cross-sections from samples.
New analyses revise theories about Mesolithic shell middens in northern Spain. The article usefulness of high-res sampling of growth structures in mollusc shells and measurement of oxygen isotope ratios as a sensitive measure of palaeotemperature variation
www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...
Lab flyer for the Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics lab. Illustrating three key areas of research: Native American politics, Gullah/Geechee societies, and central Asian empires.
🔬🏺We have an Anthropology Day alumni event coming up, and our development team made these great templates for us to showcase our labs. Had a lot of fun distilling the key contributions of the SAHND Lab here at Penn State! #archaeology #ecology #history
A vividly orange and red sunset over the Mongolian steppe. A few streams meander down on the plain, below the terrace from where the picture is taken. Horses graze down below.
🚨 Asa Cameron (post-doc) was awarded a grant from the Am. Phil. Soc. for his collaborative project: “Growth at the Margins: Feeding Empire on the Mongolian Steppe”! #archaeology
A line horses walk down a dirt path. There is a small creek to their right. To the left are high red rocky bluffs. In the background are red mountains.
A landscape photo of mountainous Kyrgyzstan. A small river to the right, flanked by rising red mountains.
🚨 Christina (@cmcarolus.bsky.social) was awarded a grant from the Am. Phil. Soc. for her collaborative project: “Vertical Archipelagos of Prehistoric Highland Inner Asia: Exploring Integrative Agropastoral Landscapes and Long Term Socioecological Dynamics at Kyzyl Unkur-1, Kyrgyzstan”! #archaeology
Huge thanks to @amphilsociety.bsky.social and their absolutely critical support for early career researchers!
Cotton seeds from Kyrgyzstan in the lab today! #archaeology #history #ecology #plants #pbot
Today’s @sahndshel.bsky.social Central Asia/SE North America cash crop crossover: ancient cotton seeds from Kyzyl Unkur-1, our highland Kyrgyz cave site!
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Looking down along a bluff edge along a tidal creek. To the left is land. To the right is the creek. Mass erosion of the bluff edge is clear, and you can tell how far back (meters) the bluff has been cut in recent years.
This bluff on Ossabaw Island (Georgia) gets cut back up to 70cm a year from erosion due to more extreme tides, more frequent storms, and increased boat traffic. The erosion continually exposes archaeological features. Each year we assess and salvage what we can #archaeology #climatechange #heritage
This is a landmark paper in Science: archaeology informing current political science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Clovis First as a model for peopling of the Americas is
1.) Outdated
2.) Inconsistent with genetic evidence
3.) Inconsistent with archaeological evidence
4.) Based on holding American sites to a different standard than anywhere else in the world, and
5.) Rooted in colonialism
(1/2)
“History rhymes, it doesn’t repeat. And in those rhymes there are things that we need to pay attention to.” Our paper covered by NPR’s All Things Considered via a short interview with our lead, @gfeinman.bsky.social! Give it a listen! #archaeology #history #democracy
www.npr.org/2026/03/19/n...
A comparison of 40 civilisations, including in the Indus Valley and Mexico, challenges the idea that Athens was the first city to experiment with people power
Press release for our new paper!
“…people across the world created inclusive political systems, even under difficult conditions…An understanding of the hallmarks of autocracy and democracy can help identify threats and pump the brakes on burgeoning totalitarian regimes.”
phys.org/news/2026-03...
Democracy isn't a modern luxury—it's a political strategy with deep roots.
In our new study for Science Advances, we analyse 40 different societies and develop a framework for measuring human governance along a collective-autocratic axis.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time. Our collaboration between archaeology and political science, out today in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Press release for our new paper!
“…people across the world created inclusive political systems, even under difficult conditions…An understanding of the hallmarks of autocracy and democracy can help identify threats and pump the brakes on burgeoning totalitarian regimes.”
phys.org/news/2026-03...
🚨Out today in Science Advances! It is more important than ever to understand the roots and historical breadth of the core features of democratic institutions and autocratic alternatives, what these practices are associated with, and their effects and consequences.
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Psyched to visit Michigan State next month! #archaeology #history #NAIS
Psyched to visit Michigan State next month! #archaeology #history #NAIS
Tomorrow 👀 😅 ahhhhhh #ultra #ultramarathon #running #trailrunning #50miler
When you're excavating all these little crown conchs like the one on the top that people ate and discarded about a thousand years ago, and then can walk 20 meters to the shore and pick up a live one. From southwestern Florida a few years ago! #archaeology #ecology
An archaeologist excavating in a trench. He’s kneeled down and the trench is higher than him. The bottom of the trench is covered in water as it is deeper than the height of the water table.
9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #archaeology #ecology
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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
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An archaeologist excavating in a trench. He’s kneeled down and the trench is higher than him. The bottom of the trench is covered in water as it is deeper than the height of the water table.
9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #archaeology #ecology
As a person whose work often ties them to the scope for many hours at a time, I’m forever amazed by the microworlds that we can easily miss within and among ordinary archaeological remains. There is almost always much more to see and learn if we just look a little closer. 🔬🎣
A high resolution microscope photo of a fish scale. It has nested circular ridges like a finger print. But in its texture looks like a finger nail!
200 year old fish scale from a plantation-era trash pit. We’re finding hundreds of fish scales (in both historic and earlier Indigenous contexts). Matthew and Christina are going to explore micro approaches to species identification! #archaeology #ecology #fish #fisheries #history
A plot of Bayesian modeled probabilities for radiocarbon ages. They are in perfect order from oldest to youngest up the stratigraphic column.
New dates back today from a 4,000yr old shell midden on the Georgia Coast! A perfectly accumulated context! c. 2 meters of regular midden accumulation in less than 100yrs 😍 #archaeology #ecology #radiocarbon
