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Beer leads to Civilization!

Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests

By Charles Q. Choi

Published November 08, 2010

Could beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It’s a possibility, some archaeologists say.

Their argument is that Stone Age farmers were domesticating cereals not so much to fill their stomachs but to lighten their heads, by turning the grains into beer. That has been their take for more than 50 years, and now one archaeologist says the evidence is getting stronger.

Signs that people went to great lengths to obtain grains despite the hard work needed to make them edible, plus the knowledge that feasts were important community-building gatherings, support the idea that cereal grains were being turned into beer…

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Heh.  Who knew?  Is there anything it can’t do???

~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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