Timeline for How did societies adapt to using alcohol to make water safer?
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| Mar 19, 2013 at 14:55 | comment | added | jwenting | doesn't answer the question though, of whether drinking alcohol was done (at least in part) as a means to prevent having to drink contaminated water. | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 15:20 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | True. I was thinking of beer (grain fermentation) due to some recent articles (my bad). Fermented fruit can literally be found all over the ground during the right time of year. | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 14:43 | comment | added | Peter Flom | No, I haven't got a link ... But alcohol comes about so easily! So many things ferment, if left alone. | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 14:28 | comment | added | T.E.D.♦ | Got a link for this assertion? It sounds possible, but my understanding is that the origins of alcohol are still hotly debated. | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 10:27 | history | answered | Peter Flom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |