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Beer Lubricated the Rise of Civilization, Study Suggests

May 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.

There's some decent evidence that suggests the labor involved in growing the ingredients to make beer, being rather intensive, would place beer as a social construct. Its design, of course, to impress one's guests with the lengths to which their host has gone to provide such a time-consuming beverage for their consumption. Given that the hops, barley, and grains that go into beer would be planted, grown, cultivated, and harvested alongside crops that would actually feed people, it's quite possible that beer was invented as a societal lubricant.

Now, that doesn't explain PBR, though...

That is all.

Link sent by PISSED, who I need to buy a good social lubricant to thank for all these interesting stories...