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This is the professional website of Dr. Catherine P. Foster, visiting scholar at Pacific School of Religion and the Badè Museum. My research explores domestic economies and interregional interactions during the Late Uruk / Chalcolithic Period in greater Mesopotamia, with a particular emphasis in household archaeology and microdebris analysis. I am especially interested in the interactions between small-scale social groups like households and larger socioeconomic processes that are reflected in daily practices. My work both as an archaeologist and museum curator draws from theorectical aspects of embodied spaces, materiality, and sensory approaches to the ancient past.