More Beer Tech: Ancient Peruvian brewery is toasted, then torched
"Mmmmmm....Beeeer."
Jeff Hecht writes in NewScientist:
Drunks may cause a ruckus, but they do not burn down the breweries that feed their thirst. But archaeologists have found that things were different 1000 years ago in Peru. After tossing down hearty drinks of pepper-spiced corn beer, aristocrats torched the brewery and smashed their mugs in the flames.
This deed was not wanton vandalism, however, but the ceremonial destruction of a sacred site during the abandonment of a mesa-top city, ruled by the Wari people. The hard-to-reach ruins sat undisturbed for a millennium until a group led by Michael Moseley of the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, uncovered them and used the remaining clues to piece together what happened.
posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2005 03:31:00 PM
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