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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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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Our SAHND Lab PI got to chat on Science Friday this week!

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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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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 · 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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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 · 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

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

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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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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

“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...

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Researchers find evidence of ancient democracies from the Americas to Europe and Asia

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with archaeologist Gary Feinman about new findings that show democracy existed throughout the ancient world and was not exclusive to Mediterranean Europe.

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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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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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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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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

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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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

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

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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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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Happy Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian Lunar New Year)! It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, so here are some tough Mongolian horses from last summer! 🇲🇳 #tsagaansar #mongolia #lunarnewyear #mongolianlunarnewyear #firehorse #horse #yearofthehorse

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Had a great time presenting on some of our recent work on early Indigenous-Spanish encounters this past weekend! #archaeology #history #ethnohistory

Title slide for presentation: A micro history of an ancestral Muskogean town in southern Appalachia

Slide showing a slice of wood of a preserved house post. There are three stars on the post at different tree rings. Showing how multiple ages from a single post can be used to achieve a single high resolution age.

A map of the King site on the left indicating houses that were data. On the right is the total chronological model for the town.

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Christina M. Carolus, PhD @cmcarolus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Currently in the Capriles Environmental Archaeology Lab @psuanthro.bsky.social using our incredible Keyence VHX-7000 to document very early Silk Road food remains (c. 2000 BP) from the Juuku Valley of highland Kyrgyzstan. Featuring: stunning images of peach pits, garden peas, and foxtail millet!

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Exciting work happening in the lab this week from @cmcarolus.bsky.social and Asa Cameron’s work in Kyrgyzstan! #archaeology #history #ecology

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Psyched to be back home for our group’s two day mind-meld on chronology building, Indigenous histories, and colonial encounters in the southeast! #archaeology #history #ethnohistory

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Jake Holland-Lulewicz @archaeojake.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

How can we place Indigenous presence and colonial encounters in absolute time? How can we see beyond Spanish descriptions into the landscapes that contextualized encounters? How do we transcend the archaeology-history divide to understand the impacts and outcomes of encounters? #archaeology #history

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Lab members have been in DC attending the XVIII Annual Mongolian Studies Conference at the NMNH and Library of Congress! Tonight, the Mongolian Ambassador to the US hosted conference participants at the Mongolian Embassy! #Mongolia #archaeology #ecology

Photo at the Mongolian Embassy in DC. The Mongolian seal is flanked by both an American flag and a Mongolian flag.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

LOOK AT THIS! Fish leather bag found in a cave in the mountains of western Mongolia. WHAT?! From Vávra 2020 (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...) #archaeology #ecology #history

An old, preserved bag made from fish skin. It lies on a table open. And its contents are arranged around it. Another small pouch, a sheep astragalus, and a few other implements. The fish skin texture is beautifully preserved.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

LOOK AT THIS! Fish leather bag found in a cave in the mountains of western Mongolia. WHAT?! From Vávra 2020 (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...) #archaeology #ecology #history

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Lab members are headed to DC this afternoon for the XVIII Annual Mongolian Studies Conference! Co-hosted by The Embassy of Mongolia and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History! #archaeology #history #ecology #mongolia #centralasia

The title slide for a presentation titled: the importance of wetland resources in the socioecological systems of Central Asia. The background is the silhouette of horses and their riders standing in the shallows of a lake, with the sunset in the background.

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SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs @sahndshel.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Throwback to @isazooarch.bsky.social working at Mound Key, the capital of the Calusa of southwestern Florida. Once home to c. 4,000 people, MK is a 150 acre anthropogenic island constructed entirely of shell, complete with mounds, canals, and live fish storage! #archaeology #history #ecology

A photograph looking down into an excavation trench. An archaeologist holds a trowel, excavated a shell matrix while sitting in water, as the trench goes below the water table.

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

🙅🏼‍♂️ Needle in a haystack? 💁🏼‍♂️ Fish bone in the crushed oyster #archaeology #ecology #fish

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

🙅🏼‍♂️ Needle in a haystack? 💁🏼‍♂️ Fish bone in the crushed oyster #archaeology #ecology #fish

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Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social · 02/02/2026

1/2 Two different limpet shells, belonging to the same species (P. vulgata). The flat one comes from low shore (large foot + reduced shell surface to resist strong waves and currents) while the pointed one comes from high shore (ribs + high shell help resist dessication by creating shadowed area)

Two limpet shells on a lab bench. They are about the same lenght but with different morphology.

Left one is rather flat with smooth surface, while the right one is higher, with coarser surface and more pronounced ribs.

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