Civilization (And Beer): An Enormous Improvement On The Lack Thereof
Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 00:50
in Earth & Climate
Fermentation Came First Evidence mounts almost daily that beer started humans on the path to civilization even before the invention of agriculture some twelve thousand years ago. A paper in Evolutionary Anthropology says that, based on tests of artifacts, cereal grains were collected (sometimes from areas as far as sixty miles away) “for the purposes of brewing beer” to be used in feasts, which then “led to domestication...” read more