Archaeology: Archaeology and the History of Alcohol

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Archaeology and the History of Alcohol Oct 17th 2011, 08:23 The history of alcoholic beverages has a special fascination to archaeologists and anthropologists. Partly, the fascination rests in the economics of manufacture, trading and consuming alcohol, for home brew, special feasting, market, industry. Amphorae from Herculaneum, from Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble Partly it is the social restrictions placed on alcohol's use in the past and the present: social taboos have always defined who can drink alcohol, when and where. And partly, perhaps most importantly, it is the role that alcohol and other psychoactive drugs played in religion. How were these tools of the shaman used to temporarily exit the mundane world, to commune with the gods, to gain some control over the unpredictability of the world? Alcohol and Archaeology History of Alcohol: A Timeline History of Alcohol: Sites and Stories from Archaeology

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