Many archaeological evidence suggests that if our ancestors did not know how to make beer, maybe civilization on Earth had grown more slowly than it really was, a Canadian scientist claimed.
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Humans know how to take grains from the wild environment as food from the Neolithic period - from 9,500 to 11,500 years ago. However, many archaeological evidence suggests that, during that period, cereals - such as barley and rice - only accounted for a small proportion of human diet because our ancestors had to work very hard to create them. According to Livescience , with primitive tools at the time, things like sowing, caring, irrigation, fertilizing, harvesting, sifting, grinding and grinding into powder required a lot of time and effort.
The habit of using grain as food leads to the formation of agricultural activity and settled lifestyle. After a period of nomadic life, many communities began to settle and communicate more often.
Simon Fraser University archaeologist Brian Hayden said that at the time, parties played an important role in community activities. So the ancients sought to make beer to drink in corporate events. Archaeologists have uncovered many evidence that, from that time our ancestors had found ways to turn grains into beer.
Because people spend so much labor to make beer, they become a luxury, Hayden argues. So people just bring them out to invite precious guests in festivals or community parties. Beer becomes a tool to impress guests, make them happy and think well about party organizers. Communities store grain only for beer to serve solemn corporate events.
Communication between communities promotes the formation of stable social practices. The parties create debt, faction, relationship, power - essential elements to create social classes. As a result, the structure of the community has become more diverse.
' Through community parties, beer promotes the emergence of more developed and complex societies, ' Hayden concluded.