Posted on 09/13/2018 12:48:50 PM PDT by rdl6989
ELSEVIER—Amsterdam, September 12, 2018—A new study* published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports suggests beer brewing practices existed in the Eastern Mediterranean over five millennia before the earliest known evidence, discovered in northern China. In an archaeological collaboration project between Stanford University in the United States, and University of Haifa, Israel, archeologists analyzed three stone mortars from a 13,000-year old Natufian burial cave site in Israel. Their analysis confirmed that these mortars were used for brewing of wheat/barley, as well as for food storage.
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Beer......the other white meat..................
Beer, the cause of, and solution to, all civilization.
It had nothing to do with “crafting” but everything to do with survival.
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Beer predates civilization. There are some anthropologist who suggest that the desire for beer was the motivation for humans to switch from Hunter- gatherers to farming.
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“Beer, the cause of, and solution to, all civilization.”
Certainly a large reason for the advent of farming.
People forget beer was a food staple, as it stored over winter well.
Beer is a food!
Burp!
Note: this topic is from . Thanks rdl6989.
At Karahan Tepe there are depressions ground into the bedrock. Some of them appear to be formed into almost a spherical container. I haven’t seen a definitive explanation yet for those so I like to pretend that someone recognized the value of unspillable beer vats.
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Beer had another practical use.
Water was usually full of nasty little creatures, although unknown to the ancients what they were, and they would kill you or make you very sick.
Beer solved two problems at once.
During the early 1800’s up until the Civil War, beer was the #1 beverage in the USA, even for breakfast, for that reason.................
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