Kate Grossman
@kategrossman.bsky.social
Archaeologist, zooarchaeologist, Middle East and eastern Mediterranean. Director of the Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project.
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.
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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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November 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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...
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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.
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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November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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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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.
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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October 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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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📕#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
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🏺 #Archaeology
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
October 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📕#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
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
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I feel like they’re trying to tell me something … something about … breakfast?
September 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I feel like they’re trying to tell me something … something about … breakfast?
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.
Bodega ramps are all over New York City. The humble, concrete blobs ease entry into delis and other stores — and affirm the civic compact. nyti.ms/3UnFivI
August 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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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Sunday evening walkies with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, NC
August 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sunday evening walkies with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, NC
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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.
July 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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Thanks to all of our students and staff for a successful 2025 field season at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. @kategrossman.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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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
June 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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
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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
June 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
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Papers delivered! Now one more day to hang out in Lyon before heading off to Cyprus
June 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Papers delivered! Now one more day to hang out in Lyon before heading off to Cyprus
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Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet
June 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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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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."
June 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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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
May 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
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Thanks to the "Bible & Archaeology" podcast for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia. youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
How Beer Shaped Ancient Mesopotamia | Bible & Archaeology
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May 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thanks to the "Bible & Archaeology" podcast for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia. youtu.be/DD6UoU2Zh48?...
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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?
May 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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?
This is cool. I’m on board.
You know what the world absolutely does not need? Yet another definition for domestication. Get over yourselves people. C'mon!
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Ok, maybe just one more. So much fun working with @elinork.bsky.social, Kathryn and Robin. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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May 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is cool. I’m on board.
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Max is getting into the rhythms of the household
May 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Max is getting into the rhythms of the household
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It can often be difficult to tell Sheep (right) and Goats (left) apart, but to the trained eye there's an obvious difference:
While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.
While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.
May 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
It can often be difficult to tell Sheep (right) and Goats (left) apart, but to the trained eye there's an obvious difference:
While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.
While both commit Crimes, only Goats are aware that their actions are wrong, and are thus capable of Sin.
A real banger from @katewagner.bsky.social
IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise
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May 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A real banger from @katewagner.bsky.social
Our new family member!
We are now a four-person family (2 human, 2 canine). Everybody say hi to Max! He's an 8-year-old, beagle-corgi mix. @kategrossman.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our new family member!
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Celebrating 15 years married to @kategrossman.bsky.social. The first "official" wedding was in Orvieto, Italy. These photos are from our second wedding a month later in Syria during the 2010 excavation season at Hamoukar
April 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Celebrating 15 years married to @kategrossman.bsky.social. The first "official" wedding was in Orvieto, Italy. These photos are from our second wedding a month later in Syria during the 2010 excavation season at Hamoukar
Always a good day when a new podcast episode about Mesopotamian beer drops
Thanks to Gastropod for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia!
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Do We Really Have Beer to Thank for the First Writing and Cities? - Gastropod
The story of beer's origins, the debate over whether humanity domesticated grains for brewing or for baking, and why beer was so essential to the smooth functioning of the world's first cities and sta...
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April 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Always a good day when a new podcast episode about Mesopotamian beer drops