Bronze Age Briton buried with beer beaker
This seems like a fitting St. Patrick's Day story:
Canterbury Archaeological Trust said the curled-up skeleton was an example of a "Beaker" burial because of the pottery vessel placed at its feet.
Education officer Marion Green said the "beautifully decorated" pot could have been "a type of beer mug".
She said tests on beakers from other sites suggested Bronze Age man was brewing a type of beer from grain.
No word on whether the beer was green.
John Hawks Department of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin—Madison
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