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Ancient beer breweries hint at alcohol's age-old appeal

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From www.msnbc.msn.com - January 1, 4:21 AM
As people ring in the New Year with dancing and a bit of bubbly, they can consider themselves part of an ancient human tradition.

 

Several new archaeological finds suggest that alcohol has been a social glue in parties, from work festivals to cultic feasts, since the dawn of civilization.

In the December issue of the journal Antiquity, archaeologists describe evidence of nearly 11,000-year-old beer brewing troughs at a cultic feasting site in Turkey called Göbekli Tepe.

 

Archaeologists in Cyprus have unearthed the 3,500-year-old ruins of what may have been a primitive beer brewery and feasting hall at a site called Kissonerga-Skalia.

 

The excavation, described in the November issue of the journal Levant, revealed several kilns that may have been used to dry malt before fermentation.

David Connolly's insight:

I foresee some more research this year about culture and the relationship with beer and spirits

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From fortvancouverarchaeology.blogspot.fr - January 30, 11:28 AM

The use of information and communications technology (ICT) has revolutionized archaeological mapping, image recording, and analysis through tools such as GPS, GIS, and digital cameras (Evans and Daly 2006). Gidding et al. (2011) note that archaeologists have been slow to adopt integrated digital recording techniques, relying to an inordinate degree on paper-based recording systems to collect data on archaeological phenomena.


Where archaeologists have utilized digital data, the resultant databases often can answer only very specific research questions (Gidding et al. 2011).


That the challenges of using ICT field collection are becoming less of an issue is evidenced by the recent session at the 2012 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference titled “Using tablet PCs to support field documentation

David Connolly's insight:

THis is going the be the way forward, but there will always always be a place for the pencil, tape and notebook  ( well   for now anyway! )

Martin Roseveare's comment, January 30, 11:46 AM
We've just built a proper integrated recording system for a project in Iraq (http://www.urarchaeology.org/). It does need proper ground-up design and a complete move away from the file-full-of-paper mindset to be properly useful
David Connolly's comment, January 30, 4:03 PM
Superb! Martin... you of course have made me jealous. This calls for a short article I think!
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