[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Right, a culture who had yet to invent alcohol ran the mother of all mining operations.

Are you suggesting you'd have to be plastered to do that much mining? ;-)
I know the Incas and Aztecs drank alcohol, but i don't know the dates and if ever extended to North America.

[dsrtsage]

“ I know the Incas and Aztecs drank alcohol, but i don’t know the dates and if ever extended to North America.”

Yeah, and they had huge cities like Tikal, and tenochtitlan, and extensive canals still buried in the jungle in the yucatan that hint at populations in the millions. Even the egyptians paid their workers with beer