SAHND and SHEL Archaeology and Ecology Labs

Lab PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference last week!

Copy of an academic/scientific poster for a study titled "Pre- and post-Emancipation Gullah/Geechee Oyster Harvesting on Ossabaw Island, Georgia." The study ues oyster morphologies from oysters recovered archaeologically to compare oyster harvesting practices between enslaved and Free black communities on the Georgia coast.

A copy of an academic/scientific poster titled "Organizing the Space and Daily Life of Enslaved Communities at Middle place Plantation on Ossabaw Island, Georgia." The study uses artifact distributions from hole excavated systematically across an enslaved communities to better understand how space was used by the members of enslaved families on the Georgia coast.

PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology

Copy of an academic/scientific poster for a study titled "Pre- and post-Emancipation Gullah/Geechee Oyster Harvesting on Ossabaw Island, Georgia." The study ues oyster morphologies from oysters recovered archaeologically to compare oyster harvesting practices between enslaved and Free black communities on the Georgia coast.

A copy of an academic/scientific poster titled "Organizing the Space and Daily Life of Enslaved Communities at Middle place Plantation on Ossabaw Island, Georgia." The study uses artifact distributions from hole excavated systematically across an enslaved communities to better understand how space was used by the members of enslaved families on the Georgia coast.

PhD Students Matt and Lakelyn are presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) this week down in Baton Rouge! #archaeology #history #ecology

🚨 “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....

🚨 “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....

Photo of participants in the Australia in the Anthropocene workshop

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!

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!

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🚨 Hey!! We’re hiring an archaeologist!! Come hang out with us!!

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Our Co-PI @isazooarch.bsky.social will be down in Tallahassee in a few weeks!

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

We know him!

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

✨ 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/...

"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...

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

Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️

Lab PIs with some good news! 💰 🐟 🦪 ⚛️

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.
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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 🧬

Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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 🧬

After fieldwork on the Georgia coast and in Mongolia, PhD student Matt Picarelli-Kombert spent time at UGA analyzing collections for his dissertation. Matt explores the impacts of Emancipation on Gullah-Geechee foodways and relationships to estuarine ecosystems along the Atlantic coast! #archaeology

After fieldwork on the Georgia coast and in Mongolia, PhD student Matt Picarelli-Kombert spent time at UGA analyzing collections for his dissertation. Matt explores the impacts of Emancipation on Gullah-Geechee foodways and relationships to estuarine ecosystems along the Atlantic coast! #archaeology