[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Beer production and subsequent consumption...may even have been manipulated to create inequalities during the transition to the Late Cypriot Bronze Age."

Ssshhhh....don't tell CommieBama that those beer drinkers weren't paying their fair share. He'll tax our beer.

[JRandomFreeper]

Science should focus on important subjects like this. Thanks for posting it.

/johnny

[GeronL]

I dunno how they could possibly know what a hole in thr ground was used for.

[bgill]

The dude building that circle kiln had been sampling the product.

[EveningStar]

ping

[Red_Devil 232]

Ping to the Homebrewers List!

My set up looks nothing like this!

[Red_Devil 232]

Ping to the Homebrewers List!

My set up looks nothing like this!

[PapaBear3625]

Dr Crewe said, “Archaeologists believe beer drinking was an important part of society from the Neolithic onwards and may have even been the main reason that people began to cultivate grain in the first place.”

Imagine being an early beer-maker surrounded by hunter-gatherers. Hunters would have come over all the time to share their catches in exchange for some beer. Early herders as well.

[Red_Devil 232]

How Beer Saved The World

[Verginius Rufus]

See Max Nelson's book, The Barbarian's Beverage, on beer in Greek and Roman times. I think it focuses on the period for which literary evidence is available (700 B.C. on)...I don't know if he covers any archaeological evidence for the prehistoric periods, eh?

(I added the "eh?" because Nelson is Canadian.)

[Berlin_Freeper]

How do they know it wasn’t a urinal?

[Eva]

Wow, that’s amazing, beer way back then.

I was just saying that the one thing that our town lacked was a nice local bar, where you could stop for a drink and see friends, like we used have back east in the Phila suburbs.

[Graewoulf]

I have read that some speculate that beer from grains was a compact method of storing the nutrients of grains. What have you read about that speculation?