Posted on 12/20/2013 10:57:34 AM PST by Teotwawki
Full Title: Did Beer create modern society? Ancient man developed agriculture to brew alcohol and not to bake bread, claims scientist
Some scientists claim beer - not bread - is the reason early man adopted a society based on farming around 10,000 years ago, a key moment in our evolution. The cultivation of grain saw the transition away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and a widely-accepted theory is that the crops were used to bake bread, but experts claim it was the prospect of a brew that drove the desire to settle down and start a farm.
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Even back then, it was hard having females around. Yak, yak, yak, yak yak!!
Beer. Is there anything it CAN’T do?
I’d need a few brews before going out to hunt a saber-toothed tiger.
Whoring around was a lot easier when all it took was a club to the head.
My understanding from Archaeology class is that some did, and it can be determined how much free time they had by the quality of their artifacts and tools.
So people would rather drink beer than eat....right !!!
Momma might not be too impressed when farmer husband brought home the barley and oats to make beer and watch his family go hungry. .
people didn’t grow food for food?
They starved and drank beer instead?
Beer came when there was an EXCESS of grain. Beer is a way to not waste the grain and “preserve” it.
They starved and drank beer instead?
Seems like that is what I did from '64 to '78.
And you got the beer gut to prove it!
lol
Well, I guess you and I took some different anthropology classes. Or maybe our definitions of "spare time" differ. Oh well, it's not important to me...but if it is to you, then GO FOR IT.
It would take something a good deal stronger than beer to create the society in which we now live.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzcP6dBsd9c
Beer Domesticated Man
Nautilus | December 19, 2013 | Gloria Dawson
Posted on 12/19/2013 8:54:42 AM by Second Amendment First
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3103310/posts
**Beer without nachos (or at least chips and dip) makes no sense whatsoever**
But they had to have a few beers on board before coming to that conclusion.
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