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Now i'm curious for the earliest documented drinking game.
by jrochkind1 4y ago
Now i'm curious for the earliest documented drinking game.
- HarryHirsch 4y agoGarret Ryan from Told in Stone has something on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8R3Xe9eZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8R3Xe9eZQ (Apopudobalia is an invention, but beer pong has an unbroken history from classical antiquity to the present day.)
- 082349872349872 4y agoIn Barber's Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years she mentions that proto-Indo-European language reconstructors are pretty sure that besides the usual set of animals and weather conditions, there was a PIE word root for "getting high". I'm guessing literacy (~3'400 BCE), not existence of drinking games (~4'000 BCE?), will be the major driver behind "earliest documented".
- jrochkind1 4y agoI could imagine hypothetical archeological evidence of drinking games without written words being involved. The earliest limit might be earliest evidence of alcohol production, of course.
- eru 4y ago> The earliest limit might be earliest evidence of alcohol production, of course. Natural fermentation of fruits has been occurring wild long before humans were around, for what it's worth.