@archaeojake
Archaeologist. Socioecologist. How do people govern themselves? Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Transdisciplinary Research on Environment and Society. Director of the Spatial Archaeology and Historical Network Dynamics Lab @ Penn State.
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
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.
9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #archaeology #ecology
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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”
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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.
9 years ago. Excavating shell midden at Pineland along the Gulf Coast of southwestern Florida #archaeology #ecology
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. 🔬🎣
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!
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 plot of Bayesian modeled probabilities for radiocarbon ages. They are in perfect order from oldest to youngest up the stratigraphic column.
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
Labeled bags full of bone and botanicals laid out across a lab table.
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
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
…good gov policies will be instituted when revenues that underpin gov are jointly produced, as predicted by collective act theory…good gov will be weakly expressed when private wealth plays an uninhibited role in political agency and when leaders have direct, discretionary control over fiscal econ.
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
Illustration of a common porcupine from the early 19th century, depicted in black and white engraving style. The porcupine is shown in profile, clinging to a vertical surface with detailed quills fanned out behind it. The quills have distinctive dark and light banding patterns. Its rounded head, small eye, and clawed feet gripping the surface are clearly rendered. The image is labeled "COMMON PORCUPINE" and includes the page number 122, reflecting its origin from a historical zoological text published in London between 1800 and 1826.
🪡 General zoology, or Systematic natural history
London, Printed for G. Kearsley, 1800-1826.
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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...
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...
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
Two trail runners dressed in bright winter running clothes mid-bite on two uncrustables
🎶 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
🎶 the rest is still uncrustable 🎶 (or whatever Natasha Bedingfield said) #run #running #trailrunning #ultra #ultramarathon #trailrun w/ @isazooarch.bsky.social
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.
🪡 Ichthyologie; ou, Histoire naturelle des poissons: .
Berlin, Chez l'auteur, 1796..
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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”
The logo for the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
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
Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes
Agustín Fuentes
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
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
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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
My cat is laying on my chest. His paws pressed into the side of my neck, making biscuits.
Throat biscuits
#WorldHippoDay
#Roman mosaic with hippopotamus
on display in Naples Archaeological Museum. This is one of the Nile mosaics found in the House of the Faun in the ancient ruined Roman city of #Pompeii. #art
#AncientBlueSky
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.
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.
Had a great time presenting on some of our recent work on early Indigenous-Spanish encounters this past weekend! #archaeology #history #ethnohistory
Photo of an Ancient Egyptian artists’s small, naturalistic painting of a standing hippopotamus on a flake of white limestone, dated c. 1479–1425. The hippo is painted in profile with head lowered and to the right. The body is outlined with black paint and painted brown. The belly, eyes, and ears are painted red. Although the ancient Egyptians were well aware of the danger and destructive power of hippos, this painted hippo has rather a friendly face! Dimensions: H. 10.8 cm (4 1/4 in); W. 12 cm (4 3/4 in); Th. 1.7 cm (11/16 in) Egyptian artists made practice sketches on flakes of limestone, sometimes for use as templates when transferring an image to the wall of a tomb or a temple. Limestone flakes were readily available because of the constant construction of temples and rock-cut tombs. A number of such sketches were recovered at Deir el-Bahri during the 1922-23 MMA excavations. This painting was acquired by the museum in the division of finds.
Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛❤️
To celebrate here’s a lovely naturalistic painting of a hippo on a small flake of limestone. Painted by an Egyptian artist some 3,500 years ago!
📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
It was a gorgeous day, glad others could enjoy it through the pic! (From the top of Blood Mountain down in GA)