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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Sep 9

I feel like they’re trying to tell me something … something about … breakfast?

Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 13

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

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Aug 11

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 · Jul 26

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 · Jul 20

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Jul 20

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 · Jun 21

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 alongside

Photo 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 · Jun 12

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 · Jun 6

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 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

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · Jun 3

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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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Jun 2

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 · May 31

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 sky

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

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · May 30

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

YouTube video by Bible & Archaeology

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · May 30

-- Agatha Christie Mallowan in her memoir "Come, Tell Me How You Live," on packing for excavation with her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan.

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · May 30

“Any room in your suitcases?’’ Long experience should have warned me to answer firmly “No,” but I hesitate, and immediately doom falls upon me. “If you could just get in one or two things-” “Not books?” Max looks faintly surprised and says: “Of course books— what else?”

A stack of books amidst a pile of clothes

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · May 24

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 · May 17

This is cool. I’m on board.

Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · May 16

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....

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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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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · May 9

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 bar

Photo 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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Nome @nome.bsky.social · May 7

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.

A wooly goat, its eyes invisible, two simple horns curling back from its head

A ram in need of sheering, its eyes invisible, its horns curling beside its head.

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · May 7

A real banger from @katewagner.bsky.social

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Apr 17

IT'S HERE: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a Treatise
www.patreon.com/posts/mcmans...

Trump and Lindsay Graham in the Oval Office full of cheap gilded kitsch

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · May 2

Our new family member!

Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · May 2

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

Photo showing a dog (beagle-corgi mix) with white paws, black and brown body, and white tail tip, standing on a paved, backyard patio

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · May 1

You got this. I believe in you!

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Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Apr 23

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

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Photo showing two women in a car, one wearing a white wedding dress with red accents and white veil

Photo showing a man with a big, bushy beard in a red and white keffiyeh and formal, white galabiya and a woman in a white wedding dress with red accents and white veil, holding a bouquet of red and white flowers

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Kate Grossman @kategrossman.bsky.social · Apr 22

Always a good day when a new podcast episode about Mesopotamian beer drops

Tate Paulette @tatepaulette.bsky.social · Apr 22

Thanks to Gastropod for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia!

gastropod.com/do-we-really...

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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