Thursday, March 6 @ 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Thursday, March 6 @ 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Yale Peabody Museum
Four thousand years ago a song was composed in ancient Babylonia that preserves the oldest recorded recipe for brewing beer. Archaeologist Tate Paulette has published In the Land of Ninkasi, an authoritative account of beer in Babylonia, the world’s first great beer culture. This unique public event combined with a book talk will demonstrate experimental archaeology at work, featuring a tasting of reconstructed brews created by Yale students (valid ID required). Admission is free.
Tate Paulette is an archaeologist and Associate Professor in the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus, Scotland, and the US, and he is currently co-directing an archaeological field project and field school at the site of Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia in western Cyprus. He is author of In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia and editor of the forthcoming A Cultural History of Wine in Antiquity.