{"id":9297,"date":"2010-11-09T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=9297"},"modified":"2010-11-09T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T03:35:05","slug":"beer-leads-to-civilization-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/?p=9297","title":{"rendered":"Beer leads to Civilization!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/11\/08\/beer-lubricated-rise-civilization-study-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Charles Q. Choi<\/p>\n<p>Published November 08, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Could beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It&#8217;s a possibility, some archaeologists say.<\/p>\n<p>Their argument is that Stone Age farmers were domesticating cereals not so much to fill their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/11\/08\/beer-lubricated-rise-civilization-study-suggests\/#\" target=\"undefined\">stomachs<\/a> but to lighten their heads, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/ancient-nubians-fermented-antibiotics-with-alcohol-100909.html\">turning the grains into beer<\/a>. That has been their take for more than 50 years, and now one archaeologist says the evidence is getting stronger.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Heh.\u00c2\u00a0 Who knew?\u00c2\u00a0 Is there anything it can&#8217;t do???<\/p>\n<p>~Curtis in \/\\\/\\onTana! {!-{&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-humor","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9297"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9304,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9297\/revisions\/9304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dailylife.barrowroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}