“Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood”
“Drinking Beer in a Blissful Mood”
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“带着幸福的心情喝啤酒”
作者：
J. Jennings;Kathleen L. Antrobus;Sam J. Atencio;Erin Glavich;Rebecca Johnson;German Loffler;Christine Luu
宴席是古代世界大部分地区政治行动的重要场所。由于酒精饮料在许多这样的活动中被大量饮用，赞助商经常面临着在宴会前几天聚集大量酒精的令人望而生畏的问题。本文回顾了在某些地区生产酒精饮料的传统方法，并展示了每种饮料生产的细节，如保质期、植物成熟和劳动力需求，如何为那些试图组织大规模生产的人提供了挑战和机会。对盛宴的考古调查往往集中在这一事件本身的政治后果上，但导致盛宴的生产斗争对我们理解过去社会的政治经济也很重要。
Feasts were important arenas of political action throughout much of the ancient world. Since alcoholic beverages were liberally consumed at many of these events, a sponsor often faced the daunting problem of assembling prodigious amounts of alcohol in the days preceding a feast. This paper considers traditional methods for making alcoholic beverages in certain regions and demonstrates how the details of each drinks manufacture, such as shelf life, plant maturation, and labor demand, offered challenges and opportunities to those who attempted to organize their mass production. Archaeological investigations of feasting have tended to focus on the political ramifications of the event itself, but the production struggles leading up to a feast are also important to our understanding of the political economies of past societies.