SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs
@sahndshel.bsky.social
The combined research labs of Drs. Jacob and Isabelle Holland-Lulewicz at Penn State Anthropology. The Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics Lab (SAHND) and the Laboratory for Socioecological Histories of Estuarine Landscapes (SHEL)
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Our lab of archaeologists, historians, and ecologists studies social, economic, and environmental dynamics over the last 5,000yrs. From the earliest Indigenous villages on the US Atlantic coast, to nomadic Mongolian empires, to Black towns of the post-emancipation South. Follow for rad archaeology!
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PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology
PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology
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🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” New preprint! Give it a look! #archaeology #history #networks papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” New preprint! Give it a look! #archaeology #history #networks papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” Lab PI @archaeojake.bsky.social is a coauthor on this preprint! Give it a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” Lab PI @archaeojake.bsky.social is a coauthor on this preprint! Give it a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” Lab PI @archaeojake.bsky.social is a coauthor on this preprint! Give it a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🚨 “Mobility and Immobility as Resistance: Network Diversity Facilitated Escape Attempts among Enslaved Africans of the Coastal American Southeast.” Lab PI @archaeojake.bsky.social is a coauthor on this preprint! Give it a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Australia in the Anthropocene: Linking Past, Present and Future. Wonderful project workshop yesterday exploring the diverse methods our students and ECRs are using to examine how Australia's ecosystems have been shaped by people over the long-term and why it matters today.
October 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Australia in the Anthropocene: Linking Past, Present and Future. Wonderful project workshop yesterday exploring the diverse methods our students and ECRs are using to examine how Australia's ecosystems have been shaped by people over the long-term and why it matters today.
Our PIs, @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social, have both been appointed to the editorial board of American Antiquity beginning in 2026!
October 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Our PIs, @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social, have both been appointed to the editorial board of American Antiquity beginning in 2026!
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Don’t be puzzled by the lack of deadline in the ad. This is an imposed HR quirk. Reviews will begin c. November 1st! Happy to field any questions! #archaeology
🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!
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Assistant Professor of Archaeology
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October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Don’t be puzzled by the lack of deadline in the ad. This is an imposed HR quirk. Reviews will begin c. November 1st! Happy to field any questions! #archaeology
This week!
Our Co-PI @isazooarch.bsky.social will be down in Tallahassee in a few weeks!
October 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This week!
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🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Our Co-PI @isazooarch.bsky.social will be down in Tallahassee in a few weeks!
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our Co-PI @isazooarch.bsky.social will be down in Tallahassee in a few weeks!
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This is the Cane Patch site on the GA coast. A shell heap once 65m across, 10m tall. Accumulated 4k yrs ago by Indigenous people living in the earliest permanent villages in North America. Cane Patch likely served as an important place for new villages to maintain wider social networks #archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is the Cane Patch site on the GA coast. A shell heap once 65m across, 10m tall. Accumulated 4k yrs ago by Indigenous people living in the earliest permanent villages in North America. Cane Patch likely served as an important place for new villages to maintain wider social networks #archaeology
This is the Cane Patch site on the GA coast. A shell heap once 65m across, 10m tall. Accumulated 4k yrs ago by Indigenous people living in the earliest permanent villages in North America. Cane Patch likely served as an important place for new villages to maintain wider social networks #archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is the Cane Patch site on the GA coast. A shell heap once 65m across, 10m tall. Accumulated 4k yrs ago by Indigenous people living in the earliest permanent villages in North America. Cane Patch likely served as an important place for new villages to maintain wider social networks #archaeology
We know him!
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
We know him!
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New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New publication out by one of our PIs, @archaeojake.bsky.social!! #archaeology @psuanthro.bsky.social @psuliberalarts.bsky.social
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✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
September 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
✨ Faculty Spotlight ✨
New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
August 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
New NSF award just dropped for our Co-Directors @isazooarch.bsky.social and @archaeojake.bsky.social! “Variables Influencing the Efficacy of Estuarine and Marine Resource Management”. #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #sustainability Visit here to learn more 👉🏻 www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
"Community-based archaeology is a methodological and theoretical tool for knowledge coproduction that necessitates an openness to transformation, institutional reorganization, and flexibility of traditional models of archaeological practice." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast
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August 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Community-based archaeology is a methodological and theoretical tool for knowledge coproduction that necessitates an openness to transformation, institutional reorganization, and flexibility of traditional models of archaeological practice." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🚨 New paper just published in Advances in Archaeological Practice ( @saa-aap.bsky.social ) by lab Co-Director Jake ( @archaeojake.bsky.social )!! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast” #archaeology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast
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August 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🚨 New paper just published in Advances in Archaeological Practice ( @saa-aap.bsky.social ) by lab Co-Director Jake ( @archaeojake.bsky.social )!! “Indigenous Collaborative, Consultative, and Community-Engaged Archaeology in the American Southeast” #archaeology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
Floating (pun intended) through a beautiful August in Kyrgyzstan 🌱 Pt. I
August 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Drs. Christina and Asa are in Kyrgyzstan! They’re interested in this unique location along the “Silk Road” and are looking closely at the introduction of agriculture and new crops into what is today Kyrgyzstan (and how these systems changed/were adapted locally over time)! 🇰🇬 🌱 #archaeology #ecology
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Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️
Hey! Mine (Co-PI) and @isazooarch.bsky.social’s (PI) NSF proposal has been recommended for funding! Feeling super fortunate given the state of things 🙌🏻 💰 🎉 🐟 🦪 (fingers crossed for no unexpected hurdles to being properly awarded) #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #shellfisheries #sustainability
August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️
Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️
Hey! Mine (Co-PI) and @isazooarch.bsky.social’s (PI) NSF proposal has been recommended for funding! Feeling super fortunate given the state of things 🙌🏻 💰 🎉 🐟 🦪 (fingers crossed for no unexpected hurdles to being properly awarded) #archaeology #ecology #fisheries #shellfisheries #sustainability
August 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️
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1/New Open Access paper in PNAS with an outstanding team of collaborators:
Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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August 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
1/New Open Access paper in PNAS with an outstanding team of collaborators:
Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Drs. Jake and Isabelle are in DC at the Smithsonian NMNH! They’re dropping off 400yr-old peach pits from an Ancestral Muskogean site on the South Carolina coast to test for DNA preservation. Hoping to learn more about Indigenous management of this important plant! #archaeology #ecology #aDNA 🧬
August 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Drs. Jake and Isabelle are in DC at the Smithsonian NMNH! They’re dropping off 400yr-old peach pits from an Ancestral Muskogean site on the South Carolina coast to test for DNA preservation. Hoping to learn more about Indigenous management of this important plant! #archaeology #ecology #aDNA 🧬