Bulgarian Archaeologists Preserve Skeleton of '1st European Man'

Novinite.com ^ | June 9, 2010 | Unknown

[SunkenCiv]

;’) The best part is, beer was invented about 5000 years before someone invented cups, so the cavemen had to guzzle it straight from the still. ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

prehistoric lake europe site:freerepublic.com

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[Tainan]

Interesting visual comes to mind.
Ogg & Gogg hard at work chipping out a large stone vat to keep their beer in.
Ogg watches Gogg and suddenly sees a bamboo, maybe something else, stick is hollow in the middle.
Insert light bulb above Oggs' head.
Next pic, Ogg is chopping a larger bamboo/wood piece and making a cup.

Beer...The Mother of Invention!


Remembering the inventiveness of dope smokers making pipes and roach clips, I don't think it took 5000 yrs before the "cup" made its appearance...;)

[gleeaikin]

Though this is an interesting link, it is not what I remember. The Geographic article was in the 1970s. The site was a settlement mound accumulated to a height of 50 feet. The people had build on the same location all those years, and I think they estimated that each foot represented debris from about a hundred years of living. Since it had not been lived on continuously the final figure was either 8,000 or 6,000 old. I do seem to remember it was in Bulgaria.

[VOA]

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