Kate Grossman

Photo showing two dogs (beagle-corgis?) on leashes, sitting on a sidewalk, staring intently at the door of a white brick building

Our usual Sunday-morning walk to the local bakery, Boulted Bread. Waiting for @kategrossman.bsky.social to emerge with the goods

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.

Maybe they were building the first zooarchaeology comparative collection.

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.

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/...

Jealous. It's just a disgusting sleet here.

Where Beer Began: Is the Mesopotamian Origin Story Correct & The Birth of Brewing Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 12/24/2025 · 50m

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!
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Make ma’amouls. The date filling and the powdered sugar are both super festive

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*????

Congrats to Tate on the second award for his book this year!

Another new Hamoukar publication! This time, on my excavation of Early Bronze levels at the site.

Please share widely!

We added a new dog (Max, 8, smaller dog) to our household with Daisy (12, slightly larger dog). We wanted Daisy to have a companion as she got older. It’s mostly been fine (small issues around cooking in the kitchen) and they definitely adore walks together.

13/10 for Owen.

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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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…

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.

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.

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.

Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

📕#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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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.

Sunday evening walkies with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs at Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve in Cary, NC

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.

Thanks to all of our students and staff for a successful 2025 field season at Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. @kategrossman.bsky.social

Photo showing a woman with arms outstretched, gesturing toward a mountain vista, with a line of students alongside

Photo showing a view along the coastline in southern Cyprus, looking toward Aphrodite's Rock (Petra tou Romiou)

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 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

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

A woman in a black dress at a podium, speaking into a microphone, in front of a screen showing an archaeological excavation in Cyprus

A man in a dark jacket and pink, flowery shirt, delivering a presentation next to a screen showing manioc and a quote from Philippe Descola

Papers delivered! Now one more day to hang out in Lyon before heading off to Cyprus

Are all muppets the same species just with wildly different phenotypes like dogs or are there a lot of different species of muppet

Congratulations! We are excited to see the results of your work!

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."

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 sky

Photo showing two pints of cask ale sitting in front of the appropriate hand pumps

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