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Penn State Anthropology @psuanthro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🎉 Welcome, Dr. Amy Thompson! Dr. Thompson's research focuses on differential access to resources and inequality among ancient Maya communities. She uses traditional archaeological methods (survey, excavations, & radiocarbon dating) alongside cutting edge geospatial technologies (GIS & LiDAR).

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The Juuku Valley Archaeology Project officially begins its 2nd season at Kyzyl Unkur-1, w/testing of a few new sites. Now equipped for geophys thanks to @psuanthro.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social, with critical support from @amphilsociety.bsky.social). Expecting great things this year!

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🚨 New paper! 🦪 Is our archaeological data skewed by taphonomic process? 🦪 How do we move towards more nuanced approaches to morphometric studies? 🦪How can archaeologists make our studies relevant to modern socioecological research? Have a read! 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

✅ Accepted! Coming soon to an issue of Scientific Reports, stay tuned! #archaeology #ecology 🦪 📏 w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social

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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

How do we know which ancient societies were democracies? A new study is using architecture to find out. In our #PictureOfTheWeek, anthropologist Jacob Holland-Lulewicz photographs a 2,000-year-old trash pit on the Eastern Mongolian Steppe. Images Credit: Jacob Holland-Lulewicz

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Listen to me yap about how archaeologists use architecture and urban design to think about governance, how we might interpret our own federal architecture, some findings about democracy’s origins, and a few hopeful thoughts about democracies around the world! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/wha...

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What urban design tells us about democracy

Archaeologists can use the design of ancient temples, plazas, and cities to piece together the story of how a place was governed.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

🐠 🌱 🦪 ⛈️ 🌡️ The other half of our lab w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social! #archaeology #ecology #sustainability #climate

A poster for Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz’s lab: the laboratory for socioecological histories of estuarine landscapes.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🔬🏺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

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.

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Archaeology @ Uni of York @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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/...

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.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🚨 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 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.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

🚨 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

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.

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Huge thanks to @amphilsociety.bsky.social and their absolutely critical support for early career researchers!

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Cotton seeds from Kyrgyzstan in the lab today! #archaeology #history #ecology #plants #pbot

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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

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.

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John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is a landmark paper in Science: archaeology informing current political science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time

Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.

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Kaedan O'Brien, Ph.D. @deadbovids.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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)

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 19/03/2026

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

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Was democracy born in ancient Greece? Research suggests otherwise

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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...

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New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient socie...

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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/...

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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time

Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.

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David Stasavage @stasavage.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time. Our collaboration between archaeology and political science, out today in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The distribution of power and inclusiveness across deep time

Democratic practice in the premodern world was not the exclusive domain of Greece and Rome.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

🚨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/...

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Psyched to visit Michigan State next month! #archaeology #history #NAIS

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #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.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life” Original post

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9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #archaeology #ecology

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

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. 🔬🪏🎣

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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 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!

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

A plot of Bayesian modeled probabilities for radiocarbon ages. They are in perfect order from oldest to youngest up the stratigraphic column.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Whats up in the lab today? About to run 47 dates from a 2,000yr-old settlement of the Xiongnu Empire in Mongolia and 23 dates from a rock shelter in Kyrgyzstan that was once along the Silk Road! Asa and Christina (@cmcarolus.bsky.social) are doing the COOLEST work! #archaeology #history #radiocarbon

Labeled bags full of bone and botanicals laid out across a lab table.

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Stay tuned for our forthcoming paper demonstrating a key link between more autocratic forms of governance and a reliance on external financing. Also see Blanton et al. 2021 on the topic of financing (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...): (see passage below) #archaeology #economics #polisci

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

🪡 General zoology, or Systematic natural history London, Printed for G. Kearsley, 1800-1826. [Source]

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Lab Co-PI, Dr. Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz (@isazooarch.bsky.social) is on the editorial board of this exciting, brand new archaeology journal, the LEIZA Journal of Archaeology published by @leizarchaeology.bsky.social!! Check it out! #archaeology www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...

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LEIZA: LEIZA Journal of Archaeology

Unsere wissenschaftlichen und populärwissenschaftlichen Publikationen aus dem hauseigenen Verlag

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Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) @leizarchaeology.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Excited to announce the launch of the LEIZA Journal of Archaeology (LJA), a new #DiamondOpenAccess, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal of world #archaeology. More Info: www.leiza.de/forschung/pu...

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LEIZA: LEIZA Journal of Archaeology

Unsere wissenschaftlichen und populärwissenschaftlichen Publikationen aus dem hauseigenen Verlag

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

About to date some of the earliest pottery in North America! These were tempered with Spanish moss c. 4800 yrs ago. Charred fibers are preserved in the sherd and can be directly dated! Note the swirly linear voids left from fibers that were burnt out in the production process #archaeology #history

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

🎶 the rest is still uncrustable 🎶 (or whatever Natasha Bedingfield said) #run #running #trailrunning #ultra #ultramarathon #trailrun w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social

Two trail runners dressed in bright winter running clothes mid-bite on two uncrustables

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🪡 Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons: . Berlin, Chez l'auteur, 1796.. [Source]

Illustration of a prickly pufferfish (Diodon orbicularis) with a round, inflated body covered in sharp white spines. The fish's body is brown on top and fades to yellow with dark spots on the underside. It has bright red fins – two pectoral fins, a tail fin, and a fin near the rear. The head features a small eye and an open mouth. The background is plain beige with handwritten text on the upper right, naming the fish in several languages including English as "The prickly Bottefish." This detailed 1796 natural history drawing highlights the fish's distinctive spines and coloration.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are attending the Inaugural International Gullah Geechee and African Diaspora Foodways Research Symposium down in South Carolina!! #history #culture #food #foodways #archaeology

Cover for the program of the symposium showing a hand holding stalks of rice. The symposium showcases the project “Listen with Intention and Eat the Good Food”

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Tomorrow (Feb 19) at 4:30 pm EST, Penn State hosts a hybrid event with @anthrofuentes.bsky.social where he'll discuss his work, Sex Is a Spectrum, and why a binary view of sex and gender is not only misguided but harmful, exploring the multitudes of ways of being human. Register: buff.ly/Jy8ywS4

Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes

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