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ncstatehistory.bsky.social @ncstatehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ancient history live! 🏺 On Sept 18, 2 artifacts from our Roman Archaeology Lab were featured at The Human Factor VIP reception, showcasing NC State research from Petra & Aqaba, Jordan! Faculty members Tate Paulette and Kate Grossman were on hand to guide guests through the display.

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Matt R @bluemattred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This looks like a fascinating book about beer culture in Mesopotamia by @tatepaulette.bsky.social But I can't believe he didn't call it Ziggurats and Alcohol. aeon.co/essays/mesop...

Ancient clay plaque from Mesopotamia showing a man and woman having sex, the man standing behind the woman, who bends over to drink from a jug of beer on the ground.

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sniffing the cool breezes on the porch

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) sitting on a screened porch on a blue couch, nose lifted to sniff the breeze to the left

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) sitting on a screened porch on a blue couch, nose lifted to sniff the breeze to the right

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) sitting on a screened porch on a blue couch, nose lifted to sniff the breeze to the right and behind

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Floof contemplates @kategrossman.bsky.social ’s most recent garnish art: an attempt at a butterfly on this Maple Rum Old Fashioned

Photo showing a reddish brown cocktail in a rocks glass with a fancy orange twist, sitting on an inlaid table from Syria, with a blue ceramic lamp from Cyprus behind. In the background a dog (beagle-corgi?) lounges on a blue couch, contemplating the garnish art

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking forward to giving a talk at the @gettymuseum.bsky.social in October for the "Bacchus Uncorked" series, alongside Travis Rupp, who will be leading guests through a guided beer tasting. @kategrossman.bsky.social will also be along for the ride. Should be fun!

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Bacchus Uncorked: Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt | Getty Events

Drink to the world’s first great beer cultures, emerging more than 5,000 years ago along the banks of the Tigris, Euphrates, and Nile.

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Caught this shot of my parents at Sandbridge Beach, Virginia, as they illuminated the waves with their headlamps so I could go for a nighttime swim

Photo showing two people on a beach at night, looking out at the ocean, with headlamps illuminating the sand and waves in front of them. Scattered stars visible above

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@kategrossman.bsky.social getting fancy again with the garnish on this Night Tripper

Photo showing a deep reddish brown cocktail in a rocks glass with a fancy orange peel garnish (viewed from above), sitting on an inlaid side table from Syria, with a blue ceramic lamp from Cyprus behind

Photo showing a deep reddish brown cocktail in a rocks glass with a fancy orange peel garnish (side view), sitting on an inlaid side table from Syria, with a blue ceramic lamp from Cyprus behind

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

2015 Laphroaig 15. @kategrossman.bsky.social said: when I get tenure, we can open this bottle, and I’ll get a tattoo. Opened the bottle tonight…

Photo showing a bottle of whisky sitting on blue and green table next to a silver lamp

Photo showing two Glencairn glasses of whisky sitting on blue and green table next to a silver lamp

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Another fancy garnish from @kategrossman.bsky.social on this La Malagueña

Photo showing a reddish-brown cocktail in a coupe, with an orange peel pinwheel for garnish, sitting on a colorful coaster on an inlaid table from Syria, with a blue ceramic lamp from Cyprus as backdrop

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you find yourself at The Bike Library in downtown Raleigh, NC, you can now peruse a copy of my book while enjoying a coffee, getting your bike fixed, and/or checking out some live jazz

Photo showing four books on the top shelf of a bookshelf, with a bike repair shop and another low bookshelf visible behind

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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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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Poured myself a very tasty Bellflower saison from Zillicoah Brewing (Woodfin, NC) and about to dive into A Pub for All Seasons by @atjbeer.bsky.social

Photo showing a book, a tulip glass full of beer, and a beer bottle sitting on a circular, wooden side table by a low, comfy chair with footstool and, behind, a silver lamp on a colorful circular side table by a blue couch

Close-up photo showing a book, a tulip glass full of beer, and a beer bottle sitting on a wooden table

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My book is now out in paperback in the US! Just got my copy in the mail. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Photo showing the front cover of a book (In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia by Tate Paulette) lying on a bed of Dianthus

Photo showing the back cover of a book (In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia by Tate Paulette) lying on a bed of Dianthus

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The daily post-dinner, pre-walk blues (sound on, 1/2)

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just heard some commotion on the front porch and caught this robin fledging. I think the parent brought a berry over to the nest and dropped it over the edge as enticement

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just heard some commotion on the front porch and caught this robin fledging. I think the parent brought a berry over to the nest and dropped it over the edge as enticement

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@kategrossman.bsky.social is upping her garnish game. Check out the flair on this Autumn Negroni

Photo showing a deep red cocktail, served up in a coupe, with a fancy orange twist for garnish, sitting on a colorful coaster on an inlaid side table from Syria, with a blue ceramic lamp from Cyprus immediately behind

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Good day today. Went for another swim in the creek with my brother. Then my parents’ neighbor brought these over. My first time trying Westvleteren 8 and 12

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hanging out with my family in the North Carolina mountains, can’t resist a daily dip in Laurel Creek (with @kategrossman.bsky.social)

Photo showing two dogs (beagle-corgis?) wading through a mountain stream with rocks visible behind

Photo showing a mountain stream, swollen and muddy from recent rains, with large rocks in the middle and trees rising up the slopes on either side

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nice to have some cooler weather so we can get back out on the new screened porch (with @kategrossman.bsky.social)

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) curled up on a blue upholstered bench on a screened porch. In the foreground, a stack of books and some tea in a glass carafe and white ceramic mug. In the background, a wooden fence, some trees, and a light drizzle of rain

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) lounging on a blue upholstered bench on a screened porch. In the background, a wooden fence, some trees, and a light drizzle of rain

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Michael Bazemore @deepwatermike.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I've been rearranging the books in my office and it's the first time I've been struck by how many wonderful writers I've interacted with here (with some carried over from the Other Place). So here's a thank you to the authors I follow here whose books are on my shelves and have enriched my life. 1/

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Went out to site (Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia, Cyprus) yesterday for some evening photogrammetry and caught this lovely sunset

Photo taken just after sunset, looking out across farmland and Chrysochous Bay in Western Cyprus, with the Akamas Peninsula silhouetted in the distance against a sky fading from yellow to orange

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

10 years of archaeological fieldwork with @kategrossman.bsky.social at the site of Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. These views on the way home in the afternoon never get old

Photo showing rolling, green agricultural fields surrounded by trees near the town of Makounta in western Cyprus. In the distance, the afternoon sun glints off the Mediterranean, with the hills of the Akamas peninsula silhouetted behind

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Finished up a quick trip to London with @kategrossman.bsky.social en route to Cyprus. Managed to squeeze in some more excellent cask ales at the Harp, the Southampton Arms, and the Queen’s Head, as well as a lovely swim at the Highgate Men’s Bathing Pond

Photo showing a man sitting at a drink rail in a pub, holding a pint of cask ale (Harvey’s Sussex Best Bitter)

Photo showing two pints of cask ale (Howling Hops London Best Special Bitter and Stand and Deliver Dark Mild) sitting on a bar with hand pumps visible behind

Photo showing a man sitting at the bar in a pub, holding a pint of cask ale (Redemption Trinity Session Pale Ale?)

Photo showing a man walking along a pier about to jump into the Highgate Men’s Bathing Pond

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good day in London with cask ales at Ye Olde Mitre and the Bull and Last and an outstanding meal at St John’s Bread and Wine with @kategrossman.bsky.social … and several bookstores

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Beautiful sunset over Lake Raleigh on my evening bike ride. I just missed two great blue herons flying in low over the water

Photo showing a calm lake surrounded by trees at sunset, with a few clouds visible above the trees and purples, oranges, and blues reflected in the lake surface

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New screened porch! If you’re looking for me, this is where I’ll be. With @kategrossman.bsky.social

Photo showing the exterior of a newly built, backyard screened porch attached to a coral colored house

Photo showing the interior of a newly built, backyard screened porch, with two dogs (beagle-corgis?) relaxing in dog beds and a wall and greenery visible outside

Photo showing the interior of a newly built and furnished backyard screened porch, with a person and two dogs (beagle-corgis?) relaxing on a blue bench and in a dog bed and two white and blue chairs in the foreground

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Beautiful sunset over Lake Raleigh on my evening bike ride

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

It was great to meet you, San Francisco. You have some wonderful bookstores. Here’s my haul from Dog Eared Books, Et al. Books, William Stout Architectural Books, City Lights Booksellers (and the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting)

Photo showing books purchased at Dog Eared Books: Ground Work, Bending the Bow, and The Oldest Book in the World

Photo showing books purchased at William Stout Architectural Books: The Word for World, With a Bird, and An Archive

Photo showing book purchased at City Lights Booksellers: Economy of the Unlost

Photo showing books purchased at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting: Vine-growing and Winemaking in the Roman World, Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity, and A History of Hittite Literacy

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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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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Thanks to the NC State College of Humanities and Social Sciences for awarding me the 2026 Outstanding Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award. Sad to miss yesterday’s award ceremony, but @kategrossman.bsky.social and I are celebrating it (and her tenure news!) in San Francisco

Photo showing a speaker standing at a podium to deliver an award and, above, a screen showing a photo of Tate Paulette

Photo showing two people at the Presidio in San Francisco with the Golden Gate Bridge visible behind

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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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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Dogs racked out after a sunny Sunday afternoon jaunt around the neighborhood

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) lying diagonally across a doorway, with a colorful rug visible in the foreground and in the background bookshelves surrounding a person working at a computer

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi?) lying on a colorful rug with a dog bed and small bookshelf in the background

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My book cover is now officially on the @uchicagopress.bsky.social website, coming out on October 20! Planning some cool events involving beer, fiddlers, and lantern light. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A green book cover with.golden lettering, for a book called Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them, by me, Jennifer A. Jordan.

A black and white photo of women in bonnets and long skirts, picking hops off of long poles laid across wooden boxes.

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Prepping for a discussion of ruination, conservation, and transformation in today’s Material Culture course—pairing Caitlin DeSilvey’s Curated Decay with Ness by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and @stanleydonwood.bsky.social (in Ghostways) and a musical version of Ness by Hayden Thorpe. Should be fun

Photo showing two paperback books sitting on the rail of a blue front porch chair, with jasmine climbing over a porch rail in the background

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Riding through the NC State campus under an almost full moon

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Caught a beautiful sunset over Lake Raleigh on the NC State campus during my evening bike ride

Photo showing a lake, surrounded by trees, just before sunset, with colorful clouds reflected in the lake surface

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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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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

None shall pass! Oh, okay, you can pass

Photo showing a small dog (corgi-beagle?) lying in an open doorway in a sunbeam and a slightly larger dog (beagle-corgi?) sneaking up behind, trying to exit the door

Photo showing a small dog (corgi-beagle?) lying in an open doorway in a sunbeam and a slightly larger dog (beagle-corgi?) asking permission to exit the door

Photo showing a small dog (corgi-beagle?) lying in an open doorway in a sunbeam and a slightly larger dog (beagle-corgi?) squeezing past to exit the door

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Nice skies on my evening bike ride in Raleigh, NC

Photo showing a residential street marked with a sharrow and in the background a pale blue sunset sky with orange and purple clouds

Photo showing a bike path alongside a busy road and a bright to deep blue, post-sunset sky with gray clouds

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Thanks to Michael Kozuh for this kind and thoughtful review of my book in The American Historical Review (gift link)––"I wish more scholars would write one book like this." That's certainly nice to hear.

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Tate Paulette. In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Reading In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia, one quickly gets a sense of the challenge the author set out for himself. Beer is

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Some last-minute prep before I head off to discuss @shannonleedawdy.substack.com's Patina, as usual paired with selections form Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Always a hit with the students in my Material Culture course. After this, looking forward to Curated Decay by Caitlin DeSilvey

Photo showing cover of the book Invisible Cities

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

For your timeline, some cute little dogs out for a walk at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, NC, with @kategrossman.bsky.social

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Just finished Historical Brewing Techniques by @larsga.bsky.social. I’ve been reading a few pages each evening as I wind down from the day. I loved this book and learned so much. As @kategrossman.bsky.social can attest, I regularly felt compelled to share what I had learned with those nearby

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

First time running into my book at a used bookstore—Reader’s Corner in Raleigh, NC

Photo showing two bookshelves with used books about alcoholic beverages, including In the Land of Ninkasi by Tate Paulette

Photo showing the front facade of a used bookstore with outdoor shelves full of books

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