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Kate Grossman

@kategrossman.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Director of the Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project.

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The very bestest
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A truly wild ride. Hope @sarahjeong.bsky.social makes it home today.
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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Harrison Ford and Cookie Monster humming the Indiana Jones theme together 🤠🍪😅 #harrisonford
YouTube video by The Hook
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sunday visit to the outdoor sculpture park @ncartmuseum.bsky.social with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs
Photo showing two dogs (beagle-corgis?) sitting on the back seat of a car, excited about the coming adventurePhoto showing two dogs (beagle-corgis?) looking down a sandy path with vegetation to either side. In the distance a large metal sculpture is visible against the sky just before sunset
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A new article out today: I argue that we haven't paid sufficient attention to animals' roles in urbanization and that humans might have learned some of the complicated social ordering that is necessary for urban life from their experiences herding sheep and goats. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Putting the Baa Back in Urbanism: Affordances, Herding, and the Social Zooarchaeology of Early Cities in Northern Mesopotamia | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Putting the Baa Back in Urbanism: Affordances, Herding, and the Social Zooarchaeology of Early Cities in Northern Mesopotamia
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
More silliest doggie
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The silliest doggie
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
lol
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I really appreciate the effort this data scientist expended in trying to make sense of the upcoming pyrotechnics in DC.
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
A real banger
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Counterpoint (though I hate to argue with Pratchett): sometimes it’s rather important to dig up things that might not want to be buried again
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Amanda Pavlick @akpavlick.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"If you’re an adjunct or non-tenure-track, go ahead and finish off the bottle." ...in this economy?
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Glad to know that fat tailed sheep are so widely admired
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For Thousands of Years, People Have Been Obsessed With Fat-Tailed Sheep
Writers and artists found them entrancing.
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congrats to @tatepaulette.bsky.social! Yesterday was a big day in the Paulette/Grossman household :)
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I tenure at NC State today! I am so thankful to all the colleagues who supported me along the way.
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Everyone’s dunking on this article for the headline, but it’s hilarious (intentionally so) and some great writing and reporting. Give it a read.
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No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Thanks to Lauren Dogaer for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia on her new podcast Drunk on History
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Beer in Bronze Age Mesopotamia
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The best little doggies
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
MidEast/Eastern Med Landscape Archaeology job at Southampton with great colleagues
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Our usual Sunday-morning walk to the local bakery, Boulted Bread. Waiting for @kategrossman.bsky.social to emerge with the goods
Photo showing two dogs (beagle-corgis?) on leashes, sitting on a sidewalk, staring intently at the door of a white brick building
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.
Image of Charles Darwin quotes, with the recipient of the letter and the date the letter was written. He said "I hate every wave of the ocean" to W.D. Fox on 15 February 1836, "Oh my God how I do hate species and varieties" to J.D. Hooker in 11 March 1858, "I am very tired, very stomachy, and hate nearly the whole world" to Thomas Huxley on 10 September 1860, "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything" to Charles Lyell on 1 October 1861, "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" to John Lubbock on 3 September 1862, and "I am languid and bedeviled and hate writing and hate everybody" to J.D. Hooker on 23 June 1863.
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Maybe they were building the first zooarchaeology comparative collection.
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Live Science @livescience.com · 30/01/2026
More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren't sure why www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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More than 43,000 years ago, Neanderthals spent centuries collecting animal skulls in a cave; but archaeologists aren't sure why
Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.
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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Good morning with a brand spanking new episode! All you wanted to know about the first beer! An interview with @tatepaulette.bsky.social Author of "In The Land of Ninkasi - A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia" all about first beers! Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Where Beer Began: Is the Mesopotamian Origin Story Correct & The Birth of Brewing
Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 12/24/2025 · 50m
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Not sure if any single part of academia felt more like a weird cheat code than Interlibrary Loan. Like, I just say a book I want, basically any book, and this crack team of experts just *get it*????
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Congrats to Tate on the second award for his book this year!
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Another new Hamoukar publication! This time, on my excavation of Early Bronze levels at the site.
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THE STRATIGRAPHY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AT HAMOUKAR DURING THE EARLY BRONZE AGE: RESULTS FROM THE 2008–2010 SEASONS | IRAQ | Cambridge Core
THE STRATIGRAPHY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT AT HAMOUKAR DURING THE EARLY BRONZE AGE: RESULTS FROM THE 2008–2010 SEASONS
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Please share widely!
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
My department is hiring an archaeology post-doc to create GIS databases of archeology, ethnography, historic structures, and cultural landscapes at Gettysburg, Valley Forge, and Richmond NPs. Good salary, 3 year position, cool project, working with great people. jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at NC State University is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in support of the project “Cultural landscapes climate change vulnerab...
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Hot off the presses - new article on the faunal remains from Hamoukar! Big thanks to co-authors Max Price, Diana Fennimore, Salam Al Kuntar, and Clemens Reichel for helping get this out into the world.
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Cities are different animals: A zooarchaeology of urbanism at Hamoukar, Syria, 5th–3rd millennia BC
The advent of urbanism marks a significant shift in human lifeways, and comparative study has shown that the world has seen many different forms of ur…
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.
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Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates
France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12/10/2025
📕#BookReview Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I feel like they’re trying to tell me something … something about … breakfast?
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This is why I love studying cities. Dense urban living requires that you think about the needs of others. The materiality of that concern is baked in to urbanism.
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Sunday evening walkies with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, NC
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Christina Moss @christinaemoss.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Every time I find myself staring at a blank page I picture a faceless person asking why I don't just use ChatGPT and then I picture myself replying "fuck you, I can find my own damn words" and I start to type.
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Thanks to all of our students and staff for a successful 2025 field season at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. @kategrossman.bsky.social
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Just finished up our first week of excavations at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. Here's @kategrossman.bsky.social introducing our field school students to the site and a visit to Aphrodite's Rock to cap off our end-of-week field trip
Photo showing a woman with arms outstretched, gesturing toward a mountain vista, with a line of students alongsidePhoto showing a view along the coastline in southern Cyprus, looking toward Aphrodite's Rock (Petra tou Romiou)
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Site visit with @kategrossman.bsky.social and staff before the hordes (students) arrive later today. At Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus in the foothills of the Troodos mountains
Photo showing a line of people walking through scrubby vegetation with a fruit orchard and several mountain ridges visible behind. Woman at the front of the line carries a rake
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Papers delivered! Now one more day to hang out in Lyon before heading off to Cyprus
A woman in a black dress at a podium, speaking into a microphone, in front of a screen showing an archaeological excavation in CyprusA man in a dark jacket and pink, flowery shirt, delivering a presentation next to a screen showing manioc and a quote from Philippe Descola
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 03/06/2025
Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
In Lyon with @kategrossman.bsky.social to give 2 joint papers. Tues, 5pm, "Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia, 2017–2024: Results from a Chalcolithic–Bronze Age Site on the Northwest Coast of Cyprus." Fri, 2:30pm, "Grain standing in her furrow: Toward an animist archaeology of agriculture in Mesopotamia."
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Making the most of my day in London so far with @kategrossman.bsky.social: a stroll through Highgate Cemetery, a swim at the Highgate Men’s Bathing Pond, and cask ales (and roast pork baps) at The Southampton Arms
Photo showing a low, flat gravestone that reads “Karl Marx,” covered in small offerings from visitors Photo showing a large pond surrounded by trees, with scattered clouds in the skyPhoto showing two pints of cask ale sitting in front of the appropriate hand pumps
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thanks to the "Bible & Archaeology" podcast for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia. youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
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How Beer Shaped Ancient Mesopotamia | Bible & Archaeology
YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
London friends, @kategrossman.bsky.social and I are in London next weekend for one day. Arrive at 7am. Staying at The Bull and Last on Hampstead Heath and having dinner there. Suggestions for best nearby spots for cask ales? Should we visit the bathing ponds? Golders Hill deer/lemurs? What else?
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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is cool. I’m on board.
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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Max is getting into the rhythms of the household
Photo showing a woman holding two dogs on leashes (both some kind of corgi-beagle mix) on the patio at a local craft beer barPhoto showing two dogs (both some kind of corgi-beagle mix) sleeping in dog beds on a paved backyard patio, with dappled sunlight in the foreground and an overflowing raised bed, grass, retaining wall, fence, and trees in the background
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