UTMC

A most excellent documentary on a subject quite dear to all our hearts, and giving well deserved recognition to what is the well-spring, reason, foundation and origin of human civilization.

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Do continue along the playlist, the second video will blow your mind.

The argument could be made that they figured out food storage once they had figured out that they'd have to do that for their mad scheme of non-nomadic-living-to-make-beer to work out.

The reasons to get stationary was that making beer being stationary for a certain time, anyway, so why not stick around and keep making beer? Trecking around the countryside is not conducive to activities involving containers full of liquid.

I would suspect that they didn't go from being nomads to being settlers in, like, a day, just plunking down somewhere. Probably, they started making beer in one place, going out to get food, sooner or later more and more people would stick around that one place and the area they covered for food gathering decreased as they developed the tools necessary to live in one place over time.
And with over time I mean probably a number of generations.
But beer gave them a reason to settle the fuck down.

I had read about this before, but this slick video is, well, a slick video, and there's all that stuff about what happened after they settled down.

All arguments aside, the place where they got the "duck pond" water is called the UC Davis Arboretum, through which flows Putah Creek.
Putah Creek barely flows, and is completely and totally nasty.

Also, I just emailed that professor, and will keep you posted if he replies.

As an Australian I find it hilarious that in a blurb about beer they interview a chap called Dr. Tinney.

From Professor Bamforth:

Tongue in cheek.

That wasn't beer from arboretum water that we were drinking - though the
bugs were certainly killed. It was the thought of duck shit that turned me off

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That was his message in its entirety.
Wonder how many times he's gotten emails about THAT one!