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

Thanks to @archaeological.org for selecting my book for the 2026 Felicia A. Holton Book Award. And congrats to all the other award winners, including @mokersel.bsky.social, Meredith Chesson, and @chadhill.bsky.social for their Follow the Pots Project!

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

Honored to receive the Nancy Lapp Popular Book Award this weekend at the @asor-research.bsky.social Annual Meeting

If you're in North Carolina and interested in ancient beer, I'll be giving a talk at the Glass Jug Beer Lab in Research Triangle Park on Saturday, November 15. The event is sponsored by the Durham County Library. Click on the link to register

Just back from a quick trip with @kategrossman to give talks at Bryn Mawr College

In NYC for the evening with @kategrossman.bsky.social to see Waiting for Godot, featuring Bill and Ted. Party on, dudes!

Happy Halloween!

Cozy, rainy, fall night @kategrossman.bsky.social

The theme for this year’s neighborhood scarecrow contest is Disney villains. Our entry: Maleficent (+ Diablo, Sleeping Beauty, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather). With @kategrossman.bsky.social

No Kings, Raleigh, NC

Recorded an interview with @mrssbilton.bsky.social for the Comfortably Hungry podcast this morning, and then spent the afternoon in the backyard prepping class and sniffing the breezes with these silly little dogs. Not a bad day

Here's another video recap of NC State's recent "Human Factor" event with Alton Brown. Our ancient Mesopotamian beer tasting shows up at the very beginning and then again about 4 minutes in

Monday morning walk. Max (the little one) likes to stop at the top of the steps and send out a single good-morning “Rarf!” to the neighborhood.

📕#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

Kicking off Fall Break with the season’s first backyard fire with @kategrossman.bsky.social

Looking forward to diving into this new edited volume, Shadow Archaeologies: In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking

If you didn't catch my talk "Beer in ancient Mesopotamia" at last week's @archaeological.org Archaeology Hour, you can now watch it here on YouTube

If you're into history and into beer and HAVEN'T read Tate's book "In the Land of Ninkasi" are you REALLY into history and beer?

Here's a nice write-up and video about my recent collaboration with Les Stewart from Trophy Brewing Co. to recreate two ancient Mesopotamian beers. We served these to @altonbrown.bsky.social last week on-stage at NC State's new annual speaker series "The Human Factor" chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/09...

Very happy to have had my braincells recharged a little bit by @tatepaulette.bsky.social ‘s delightful AIA lecture today. Fond memories of the ~suggestive tablet in my undergrad’s little archaeology museum & its delightful entry point for discussions about early brewing & Mesopotamian life.

Tap into Ancient Mesopotamian history next week as we kick off AIA Archaeology Hour with Tate Paulette’s lecture, "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia." Discover the world’s first great beer culture and the people who brewed, drank, and celebrated it. Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We're so excited to tap into the beer culture of Ancient Mesopotamia!

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

Explore the world’s first great beer culture with Tate Paulette! Join the AIA on Sept 17 at 8 PM ET | 7 PM CT | 6 PM MT | 5 PM PT for "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia." Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #Archaeology #AIA #AncientMesopotamia #BeerHistory

New beer reading material has arrived. I've always been slightly cynical about recreations of historic/ancient brews. Some accounts seem to be very enthusiastic but lack substance. Having engaged with the author, @tatepaulette.bsky.social, on Bluesky recently I'm looking forward to reading this 🍻

I'll be speaking about "Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia" for this year's Archaeological Institute of America (@archaeological.org) "Archaeology Hour" series. The talk will take place via Zoom on September 17 at 8pm Eastern Time. You can register at this link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Back at work on another experimental batch of bappir—according to our interpretation, a dried out sourdough starter—for another round of Mesopotamian brewing with Trophy Brewing in Raleigh, NC, later this week

Came across these beautiful leaf prints on the sidewalk this evening during a neighborhood walk with @kategrossman.bsky.social and the floofs

The audiobook version of @tatepaulette.bsky.social fantastic book about the history of beer in Mesopotamia was released today! Give it a listen. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

The audiobook version of my book––In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia––is now available! rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Good times yesterday with @kategrossman.bsky.social at the Kirby Derby, our local soapbox derby in Raleigh, NC

A little present to myself for the first day of the Fall semester. Looking forward to digging into this detailed account of farmhouse brewing traditions by @larsga.bsky.social

The audiobook version of In the Land of Ninkasi (read by Ryan Lee Dunlop) will be released on August 26. Available now for pre-order. rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/97...

Yes! This little river is alive. My brother Kent and I have been reading @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social’s wonderful book “Is a River Alive” in parallel and got to chat about it together yesterday mid-creek

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

Rode my bike over to Lake Raleigh this evening and caught a beautiful sunset.

Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out! www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...

Gearing up to brew some Mesopotamian beer, so I’ve turned our kitchen into a production facility for bappir—an enigmatic ingredient that might have been a dried out sourdough starter. Got advice and starters from a team of sourdough specialists at NC State and have been testing out drying methods.

Barry Cunliffe, The Scythians Martyn Rady, The Middle Kingdoms @tatepaulette.bsky.social In the Land of Ninkasi @sarahebond.bsky.social Strike

This article highlights the research of four NCSU professors who use food to explore a range of topics including our very own Tate Paulette, an associate professor of history, discusses his work on ancient Mesopotamian beer culture. You can read the full article here: chass.ncsu.edu/news/2025/07...

Thanks to The Two Cities podcast for inviting me to chat about beer in ancient Mesopotamia. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Digging into history in Cyprus! The Makounta-Voules Archaeological Project (MVAP) just wrapped up excavating a prehistoric cemetery in western Cyprus. Our field school gave students hands-on archaeology training, plus lectures and field trips to amazing sites and museums.

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

Lovely quick visit to Exeter to give the keynote lecture for a conference on “The Deities and their Drinks.” Now back to Cyprus for the final weeks of our field season.

Lovely quick visit to Exeter to give the keynote lecture for a conference on “The Deities and their Drinks.” Now back to Cyprus for the final weeks of our field season.

Happy to run into my book on the shelves at the @caari-cyprus.bsky.social library

Introducing a new crop of field school students to the joys of Syrian food at the Syrian Club in Nicosia with @kategrossman.bsky.social

Everything I read in the month of June, including a little speculative fiction and a lot of nonfiction. joshuapnudell.com/2025/07/01/j...