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Welcome to the 279th issue. Fifty-five topics, that was a brainy idea, 'Civ, make more work for yourself when it's Digest time. Anyway, a great many of the 55 are older topics that popped up in searches for other things, or were spotted in a keyword scan, that kind of thing. Quite a few fall under several of the usual headings, with a focus on "Longer Perspectives".
I just now noticed that I posted what amounts to a topic duplicating the effort of decimon, who had posted about the same thing. Hey, if I have to read things before I ping 'em, the pace is going to slow way down.
Many of the pinged topics pertained either to the period just after the last glaciation, or to catastrophism, or both.
Here's a bonus article from a week ago, never got posted, which is weird, considering the amount of brew that must flow for GGG to make sense.
Okay, some of you are on to me, even though I'm subtle...
Evidence of Lincolnshire's first pub
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 06:30
This is Lincolnshire The discovery has been documented in a new book called Exchange And Ritual At The Riverside. The book has been published following an excavation of the Lower Witham Valley in 2004, and looks at life at Washingborough during the end of the Bronze Age. Project manager and company director of Pre-Construct Archaeological Services Colin Palmer-Brown explained evidence of equipment used for brewing alcohol had been found at the site during archaeological excavation... "...we found remnants of a wooden tank, which may have been lined with skins, and could have had something to do with the brewing of beer. There may have been some sort of feasting done when people met at the riverbank, which including drinking alcohol and feasting on meat stew." Principle author of the book and Bronze Age pottery specialist Dr Carol Allen confirmed the possibility of the site being used as a place to brew alcohol. "Tanks, like the one found, could have been used for a number of reasons, such as brewing alcohol, cooking, or even to create a makeshift sauna," she said. "It seems quite reasonable that they would brew ale by the riverbanks. There were also little cups found across the site, and a lot of stuff that appears to have been broken deliberately." Have a great weekend and great week, all!
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