John W. Arthur is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. He was recently named a fellow in the illustrious Explorers Club. He is also a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

It is only the beer drinkers that survived long enough to reproduce and pass their genes in our direction. Beer has been at the heart of most societies on earth-and this book is an authoritative and fascinating dip into thousands of years of fertile history of the world's favorite adult beverage.

• 1. Introduction - Beer is Food2. The Diversity of Indigenous Beer Production3. Near Eastern and Asian Beers: Stone Bowls, Red-Crown Cranes, Ancient Hymns, and Ancestral Spirits4. African Beers: Feeding the Living and the Ancestors5. European Beers: Henges, Vikings, Monks, and Our Favorite Brews6. Meso- and South American Beers: Beer Fuels Runners, Roads, and Feasts7. Tapped Out Index

John W. Arthur is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. He was recently named a fellow in the illustrious Explorers Club. He is also a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

It is only the beer drinkers that survived long enough to reproduce and pass their genes in our direction. Beer has been at the heart of most societies on earth-and this book is an authoritative and fascinating dip into thousands of years of fertile history of the world's favorite adult beverage.

• 1. Introduction - Beer is Food2. The Diversity of Indigenous Beer Production3. Near Eastern and Asian Beers: Stone Bowls, Red-Crown Cranes, Ancient Hymns, and Ancestral Spirits4. African Beers: Feeding the Living and the Ancestors5. European Beers: Henges, Vikings, Monks, and Our Favorite Brews6. Meso- and South American Beers: Beer Fuels Runners, Roads, and Feasts7. Tapped Out Index