Posted on 12/26/2005 8:42:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Beer Brewing Paralleled the Rise of CivilizationThe idea behind the theories about the early emergence of beer is that grains could be grown in poorer soils and required less water to grow than other crops, such as grapes. Unlike grapes, however, grains had no juice to extract. Therefore, they had to be soaked in water, which led to a natural fermentation process that produced what Julius Caesar described as "a high and mighty liquor."
by Kurt Stoppkotte
National Geographic News
April 24, 2001
Ancient Beer, Wine Jars Found in Egypt
AP/SF Chronicle | 5/18/05 | AP
Posted on 05/18/2005 7:01:35 PM PDT by TFFKAMM
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Message in a Bottle [History of wine snobbery]
New York Times | 12/24/05 | Tom Standage
Posted on 12/26/2005 11:56:44 PM PST by LibWhacker
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I'm really sick of this baloney idea that hunter-gatherers didn't own anything or hoard and lived ideal lives of freedom, leisure, and fun. Agriculture didn't suddenly change human nature or wreck a good thing. And until people grasp the violent, unpredictable, and often short lives that people had as hunter-gatherers, they are never going to understand why the desire to embrace agriculture and civilization was so strong. See Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization for details on how anthropologists and archaeologists ignore clear evidence of widespread violence and homicide because they so badly want to believe their myth of the peaceful savage.
:') Don't hold back, tell my how you really feel. ;')
Myth of the Hunter-Gatherer
Volume 52 Number 5, September/October 1999
by Kenneth M. Ames
http://www.he.net/~archaeol/9909/abstracts/hunter.html
"On September 19, 1997, the New York Times announced the discovery of a group of earthen mounds in northeastern Louisiana. The site, known as Watson Brake, includes 11 mounds 26 feet high linked by low ridges into an oval 916 feet long. What is remarkable about this massive complex is that it was built around 3400 B.C., more than 3,000 years before the development of farming communities in eastern North America, by hunter-gatherers, at least partly mobile, who visited the site each spring and summer to fish, hunt, and collect freshwater mussels."
An economist by trade, he tells us to follow the fermentation! to learn the story of civilization. Hear, hear!
The crops, the grains. Fields of rippling wheat.
Wheat. All there is in life is wheat.
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Oh, wheat! Lots of wheat! Fields of wheat.
A tremendous amount of wheat!
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Yellow wheat. Red wheat.
Wheat with feathers. Cream of wheat.
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Soon we shall be covered by wheat.
Did you say wheat?
Wheat.
Wheat.
I'm dead, they're talking about wheat.
"I visit the orchards of spheres and look at the product,
And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green."
-- Walt Whitman
Toss in some carrots & onions to simmer, while we stew about it.
I'll et whan I'm 'ungry;
I'll drink whan I'm dry;
If'n the whuskey don' kill me,
I'll live til I die!
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