Alcohol may be at the heart of human life, but the bulk of McGovern’s most significant samples come from tombs. Many bygone cultures seem to have viewed death as a last call of sorts, and mourners provisioned the dead with beverages and receptacles—agate drinking horns, straws of lapis lazuli and, in the case of a Celtic woman buried in Burgundy around the sixth century B.C., a 1,200-liter caldron—so they could continue to drink their fill in eternity.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Beer archaeology - a social science we can support
On the one hand, polka teaches us "In heaven there is no beer," and "Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think." On the other hand:
