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!

Me (working really hard, as you can see) and @isazooarch.bsky.social. AND the sea turtle (?) that came out of this DENSE shell midden #archaeology #ecology

If you’re in SW Florida this weekend, come hang out! #archaeology

Thinking about catfish in Minnesota archaeology- rock art image from a cave and an effigy mound likely depicting catfish, both from southeastern Minnesota near the Mississippi River where catfish are still common.

Published last year by myself and @isazooarch.bsky.social. Would love to see more use of network graphs to think about ecological data from the archaeological record! “A network approach to zooarchaeological datasets and human-centered ecosystems in southwestern Florida” 🔗 tinyurl.com/mf2xp6x2

🚨🐡 Hot off the press from the Journal of Anthropological #Archaeology! “Beyond Subsistence: Toxic burrfishes and non-food-based economies among the Calusa complex fisher-hunter-gatherers of the American Southeast” 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨🐡 Hot off the press from the Journal of Anthropological #Archaeology! “Beyond Subsistence: Toxic burrfishes and non-food-based economies among the Calusa complex fisher-hunter-gatherers of the American Southeast” 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A perfect Monday treat!! Stay tuned to learn more about the use of toxic burrfishes by the Indigenous Calusa communities of southern Florida!! 🐡🐡🐡 #archaeology #fish

Canals of the coastal SE US are usually assumed to be built by 19thC enslaved labor, but some of our preliminary work hints at Indigenous Guale communities as the potential architects of this water management infrastructure, reused 600yrs later by plantations! #archaeology @isazooarch.bsky.social

Have you heard of Mound Key!? The once capital of the Calusa Kingdom of southwestern Florida is an entirely anthropogenic island (c. 60ha) made completely of shell! There are even massive fish storage ponds (watercourts) for live fish surplus to feed its c. 4,000 residents! #archaeology #ecology

Saturday night in Hockey Valley with @isazooarch.bsky.social !

Press release on our paper in Nature Comms tracking the spread of peaches across Indigenous North America! Through this study we aimed to center Indigenous communities and ecologies in narratives of colonialism as a socioecological process #archaeology #history #ecology www.psu.edu/news/researc...

These stands of dead palms on Ossabaw Island along the Georgia Coast are evidence of increasingly severe salt water intrusion. With rising sea levels, estuarine ecosystems will continue to be disrupted, and with that critical losses of biodiversity will continue to ramp up #climate #climatechange

🚨 I’m hiring a new Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Archaeology/Ecology at #PennState in a brand new building and lab! Looking to build new awesome collaborations. Come hang out with us in Happy Valley! #archaeology #ecology 🔗 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Come hang out and let’s do cool archaeology together! I’m hiring a Post-Doc! #archaeology 🔗 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Did you know oysters are like little ecological time capsules?? Part of my research includes using geochemical methods to reconstruct climatic and environmental conditions from archaeological shell! #archaeology #ecology #climate

Excavating between the houses of once enslaved Gullah-Geechee families on Ossabaw Island off the Georgia coast. In the background is a remnant wall of one of these homes that still stands. They were made of “tabby,” a concrete-like substance produced from shell, lime, sand, and water #archaeology

On the Georgia coast, Indigenous communities altered landscapes through the deposition of shell. We’ve estimated that the modern land masses of some marsh islands and landforms are between 5-10% shell! Where we’ve done enough work to calculate, a single site can have upwards of 100 MILLION oysters!

Excited to present with @archaeojake.bsky.social on some ongoing work centered on the Georgia Coast, USA today at #SEAC2024 regarding the need for appropriately scaled analyses in our studies of archaeological shellfisheries and intra-site variation in oyster use! #archaeology

The AMAZING work our students are presenting this week! (Apologies for the low res, but you get the gist 😅) w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social #archaeology #history #ecology

Looking forward to presenting at the Southeastern Archaeological Conference this week on Gullah-Geechee lifeways and historic human-ecosystem dynamics! w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social #archaeology #history #ecology

Hello! 👋 I am an environmental archaeologist at #PennState who studies socio-ecological systems in Eastern North America, primarily Coastal Georgia and SW Florida, using zooarchaeology, stable isotope geochem, and geoarch. I 💙 fisheries. #archaeology #ecology

Where the streets are paved with…bones! An example of animal bone (cattle & sheep) flooring from Park End Street in Oxford - 12 examples of bone flooring have been found in the county of Oxfordshire! 17th cent. On display at Museum of Oxford!

🚨 I’m hiring a new Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Archaeology/Ecology at #PennState in a brand new building and lab! Looking to build new awesome collaborations. Come hang out with us in Happy Valley! #archaeology #ecology 🔗 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...