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Humans have been drinking beer for 11,500 years
Antiquity ^ | Dietrich, Oliver, et al

Posted on 01/01/2013 10:38:04 AM PST by Renfield

(Abstract of article only):

The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey
1Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Orient-Abteilung, Podbielskiallee 69–71, D-14195 Berlin, Germany (Email: odi@orient.dainst.de; jn@orient.dainst.de; kls@orient.dainst.de), 2Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Aas, Norway (Email: manfred.heun@umb.no), and 3Technische Universität München, Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Weihenstephaner Steig 20, D-85354 Freising, Germany (Email: Martin.Zarnkow@wzw.tum.de)

*Author for correspondence


Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important archaeological discoveries of modern times, pushing back the origins of monumentality beyond the emergence of agriculture. We are pleased to present a summary of work in progress by the excavators of this remarkable site and their latest thoughts about its role and meaning. At the dawn of the Neolithic, hunter-gatherers congregating at Göbekli Tepe created social and ideological cohesion through the carving of decorated pillars, dancing, feasting—and, almost certainly, the drinking of beer made from fermented wild crops.


(Excerpt) Read more at antiquity.ac.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; History
KEYWORDS: anatolia; archaeology; beer; gobeklitepe; godsgravesglyphs; sanliurfa; turkey; zymurgy
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To: niteowl77

With beer cans open one hole, then hold the hole with a finger. Flip the can upside down and poke another hole. “Shotgun!”


21 posted on 01/01/2013 11:16:01 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Renfield
Some of them start fairly young too.


22 posted on 01/01/2013 11:17:24 AM PST by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: Renfield

How time flys when your drinking beer.


23 posted on 01/01/2013 11:17:43 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Renfield
We have been renting beer for 11,500 years.

Had we chosen the "rent to own" option, we'd really be in great shape at this point.

24 posted on 01/01/2013 11:19:41 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Republicans have made themselves useless, toothless, and clueless.)
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To: Renfield

The circular structures, the pillars, the animal motifs...

I think it is/was the oldest ZOO in the world!


25 posted on 01/01/2013 11:21:58 AM PST by djf (Conservative values help the poor. Liberal values help them STAY poor!!!)
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To: Renfield

11,000 years and still going strong!

26 posted on 01/01/2013 11:22:53 AM PST by mc5cents
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To: mc5cents

Helping ugly people to have sex for 11,500 years!


27 posted on 01/01/2013 11:35:08 AM PST by wrench (I want my country back)
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To: Renfield

My favorite song lyrics:

In heaven there is no beer
That’s why we drink it here
And when we are gone from here
Our friends will be drinking all the beer.

Want me to start on “100 bottles of beer on the wall...”?

I didn’t think so.


28 posted on 01/01/2013 11:39:18 AM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: Renfield

What about the “young earthers”?

I guess they weren’t old enough to drink.


29 posted on 01/01/2013 11:41:33 AM PST by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Redcloak

This explains so much, if that moron that discovered beer could have made vegetable soup, we would have progressed a lot further, been smarter, healthier, not to mention skinnier.. Fewer ugly people too, the last woman in a restaurant after a bowl of vegetable soup doesn’t look any better at closing.. jus sayin.. :)


30 posted on 01/01/2013 11:42:34 AM PST by carlo3b (Less Government, more Fiber..)
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To: Redcloak

Lol!


31 posted on 01/01/2013 12:03:36 PM PST by Silentgypsy (If you love your freedom, thank a vet.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
women have been complaining about men drinking beer

I've always said, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

32 posted on 01/01/2013 12:05:29 PM PST by Silentgypsy (If you love your freedom, thank a vet.)
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To: carlo3b

But, Chef Carlo, if there were no ugliness, there would be no beauty. ;)


33 posted on 01/01/2013 12:09:49 PM PST by Silentgypsy (If you love your freedom, thank a vet.)
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To: carlo3b
This explains so much, if that moron that discovered beer could have made vegetable soup, we would have progressed a lot further, been smarter, healthier, not to mention skinnier.

You left out boring.

34 posted on 01/01/2013 12:49:03 PM PST by Redcloak (Winter is coming.)
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To: Renfield; wildbill; Little Bill; martin_fierro

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks Renfield. This explains some of the hangovers, oh, and November 2012. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


35 posted on 01/01/2013 1:01:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Renfield
Many, many years ago, in Organic Chemistry, the text was Morrison and Boyd. The one quote I remember to this day is as follows:

"The manufacture of soap is one of the oldest of chemical syntheses. (It is not nearly so old as the manufacture of alcohol; apparently, man's desire for cleanliness is much newer than his desire for drunkenness.)"

36 posted on 01/01/2013 1:10:18 PM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Renfield

Hopefully not anywhere near the urine trough. Hate to get em confused.


37 posted on 01/01/2013 1:34:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Thanks, RD232!


38 posted on 01/01/2013 1:40:08 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The trouble with the "masses" is that they never achieve the "m")
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To: sima_yi
Hey, not that "Many, many"! I still have my Morrison and Boyd.
39 posted on 01/01/2013 1:45:30 PM PST by Aevery_Freeman (The trouble with the "masses" is that they never achieve the "m")
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To: kjam22

One of my fraternity brothers had a necklace made of church keys.


40 posted on 01/01/2013 1:57:08 PM PST by libstripper
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