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The Origins of Beer and Wine
In Gobekli Tepe, 6,000 years before Stonehenge, there's this place called Bechle Tepe. The German archaeological folks think the giant megalithic T-shaped pillars were meant to represent some kind of deities. They would come there for ritual purposes, they think, to commune with the dead over something like a graveyard beer. And so, it raises this big question, did the agricultural revolution start with beer?