Reading this now (A little less intense than the first link I posted):
BT - Archaeological Parameters for the Beginnings of Beer
BT - Archaeological Parameters for the Beginnings of Beer
Reading this now (A little less intense than the first link I posted):
BT - Archaeological Parameters for the Beginnings of Beer
Here are the slides. I converted them all to PDFs for the sake of compatibility. I made the original files on a mac and apparently mac and pc power point files don't cross-over very well. The PDFs should chew up less RAM anyway.
Lecture 1 - Introduction to Archaeology and Beer
Lecture 2 - The Psychological, Physiological, and Sociological effects of Alcohol
Lecture 3 - The Multidisciplinary Search for Ancient Beer
Lecture 4 - Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia
Lecture 5 - Beer in Ancient Egypt
Lecture 6 - Beer in Pre-Columbian Americas
The course focused first on defining beer in relation to other fermented beverages, then demonstrating what sorts of roles alcohol consumption and production plays in our society and other societies. Then a case by case study of brewing and consumption in three different parts of the ancient world: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Americas.
Because the course was only three weeks long and I was jamming a LOT of information in there, a lot is left out, too. Also, the final class revolved around the relationship between beer and civilization. There were no slides for that class, it was a kind of end of the course discussion section for people to react to all this information.
My sweetie forwarded me links to some collections of vintage Canadian beer labels on Flickr. I thought these might be of interest here.
Quebec and Northern Ontario
Ontario
Oldest items in the collection
Enjoy!
I've seen this one before and it seems to have some good info....Microscopy Investigation of Egyptian Brewing and Baking Methods:
http://ancientgrains.org/samuel1996science.pdf...
I believe there was a period of time that the Roman army marched on emmer....emmer was #1 for the Greeks and Romans...
More or less...The recent recovery of yeast from jars of fermented chicha in Equador. What is surprising is that it is a new species of yeast...
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