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Matthew Picarelli-Kombert

Matthew Picarelli-Kombert

Ph.D. Graduate Student
424 Carpenter Building University Park, PA 16802
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Education

2023 MA Historical Archaeology – University of Massachusetts Boston
2019 BA History and Anthropology – University of Connecticut

Professional Bio

Professional Bio

Matthew is a PhD student working out of the SHEL (?) lab. He has worked as an archaeologist whose research has been directed towards prehistoric and early colonial Indigenous site. Prior to starting at Penn State, he worked on and led CRM projects throughout the Northeast. Matthew’s previous research was structured around battlefields of the Northeast, where he studied a Pequot village burned during the Pequot War. He focused on shell middens and shell beads found around the site and plans to continue this research direction at Penn State in the Southeast looking at shell middens.