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THE BANNERGRAPHIC June 23,1987

Ancient brew Is it beer that made Mesopotamia, like Milwaukee, famous?

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service PHILADELPHIA Why, 10,000 years or so ago, did people first settle down and go to all the trouble of sowing, cultivating and reaping crops? The question has long tantalized anthropologists and archeologists because once its answer is clear, they will know what sparked the long transformation of humans from wandering hunters into literate city dwellers. Beer did it, argues an anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The event that “primed the pump,” according to this new hypothesis, was the accidental discovery by prehistoric humans that wild wheat and barley soaked in water to make gruel, if left out in the open air, did not spoil. Instead, natural yeast in the air converted it to a dark, bubbling brew that made whoever drank it feel good. On top of that, the brew made people robust; at the time, it was second only to animal protein as a nutritional source. This combination of moodaltering and nutritional properties would have been incentive enough to cause neolithic huntergatherers in the Near East to begin cultivating the grains, Dr. Solomon H. Katz contends in an article published this month in Expedition, the journal of the Museum of ArcheologyAnthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. “My argument,” Katz said in an interview, “is that the initial discovery of a stable way to produce alcohol provided enormous motivation for continuing to go out and collect these seeds and try to get them to do better.” The argument is buttressed, Katz wrote in his article, by the fact that “almost invariably, individuals and societies appear to invest enormous amounts of effort and even risk” in the pursuit of mind-altering foods and beverages. Strong motivation would have been required to break away from the hunting-gathering way of life, according to one view among archeologists, because contrary to myth hunting and gathering provided a higher and more reliable standard of living, with less work, than the onerous and often chancy pursuit of agriculture. Over the last two decades, specialists on the neolithic world have generally favored environmental and ecological explanations for the birth of agriculture. For instance, it has been commonly held that population increases forced neolithic peoples to search for ways to expand the food supply. But now, some scholars are beginning to doubt this explanation and are giving more weight to cultural factors. While Katz’s beer hypothesis is likely to attract interest, skepticism is already being expressed. “I would say it’s an ingredient in the mix of causal factors,” said Dr. Marvin Harris, an anthropologist at the University of Florida who is a theorist on cultural evolution, “but I wouldn’t want to put a kind of prime-mover status” on it. What might have happened, said Harris, is that after the

Dow Jones hits record 2445

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK The stock market moved higher into record territory Monday, as the Dow Jones industrial average gained 24.66 points, to 2,445.51. The Dow has not lost ground in 11 consecutive trading sessions. Since May 20, when the average reached 2,215.87 the lower end of a trading range it had been stuck in for six weeks the blue-chip index has moved relentlessly higher. Some market analysts are beginning to talk about a 2,500 Dow. The stock market was bolstered Monday, as in recent days, by gains in the bond market and by the stabilized dollar. Receding inflation fears, underscored by a sharp drop in the Commodity Research Bureau’s index, also contributed to a growing confidence on Wall Street. And analysts said that the continued weakness of the Tokyo and London stock exchanges might bode

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Americans drink less WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans continued to drink less and less alcohol in the 1980 s, and roads and highways continue to be safer as a result, Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen says. Consumption dropped from 2.76 gallons of absolute alcohol per person age 14 and older in 1981 to 2.65 gallons in 1984, Bowen said Wednesday in his Sixth Special Report to Congress on Alcohol and Health. Figures for 1985 and 1986 were unavailable, the draft report said. The number of fatally injured drivers who were legally intoxicated fell from 50 percent to 43 percent between 1980 and 1984, according to the report.

game animals of the late Pleistocene disappeared and deprived humans of their major source of food, people began combing the environment for anything that would sustain life. “So what do you do with several tons of wild seeds you’ve just harvested?” he asked. “You settle down in a village and protect it. Meanwhile, the animals are coming closer to the stands of grain, and then there’s a gradual transition over to domestication” of both plants and animals. There is probably a “symbiotic relationship” between domestication of the two, he said. “There are plenty of plausible alternatives,” he said. The process probably had its “alcoholic aspect,” he said, but “the whole thing is a package.” The archeological record so far provides no direct evidence that beer-making prompted the

well for Wall Street, as foreign funds are funneled into American stocks and bonds. The Dow’s gains during its recent climb have not been spectacular, but the overall market trend is beginning to impress the experts, especially since many people had given the five-year-old bull market up for dead when the dollar plunged in mid-April and U.S. interest rates started moving higher. But the dollar has rebounded modestly, to a level that analysts say should help American industry compete better. That, in turn, has raised hopes that the American trade deficit will become manageable. The bond market took its cue from that, and interest rates fell accordingly. “This market has good underlying strength; people just didn’t believe it,” said Laszlo Birinyi, head of research at Salomon Brothers. He noted, however, that the current

plains that it contains a 10,000-year-old recipe for beer. (N.Y. Times photo).

cultivation of grain, Katz said. But, he wrote in his article, the beer hypothesis is compatible with one aspect of the record that has puzzled archeologists. At early neolithic village sites where stone tools used for cultivation were found, very few carbonized grain seeds were in evidence. Had they been more plentiful, it would have indicated that grain was used in the baking of bread, as is commonly believed. Since beer making does not require exposing grains to fire, he writes,“lt could be an everyday activity and yet produce not a single carbonized seed.” Moreover, he said, narrownecked storage vessels of the kind needed to promote carbonation have been found dating back to the beginnings of neolithic times. “This vessel is so common through the world that it’s incredible,” he said. “Every time you have one of these narrow necks, you know you’ve got something that’s keeping the air and the oxygen outside and the carbon dioxide inside.” The presence of carbon dioxide helped keep the brew acidic, in turn protecting it from the development of toxic qualities that can otherwise occur. By the time the neolithic village culture of the Near East had evolved into the city-states of Sumeria some 5,000 years ago, he said, beer-drinking had been raised to a high status. The world’s oldest recipe, written on Sumerian tablets, is for beer. Another tablet contains a hymn to the beer goddess, Ninkasi. Long straws for drinking beer aristocrats of Ur used golden ones were apparently common in the early Mesopotamian citystates. “In general,” Katz writes in Expedition, “we can say that beer was an important food that was integrated into the mythology, religion and economy of the Sumerians. ”

Wall Street rally was still a blue-chip rally. “It’s not the over-the-counter or the sls stock they’re buying,” he noted. One trader, who said the Japanese were big buyers, observed: “This is all IBM, Digital Equipment, Merck, all the big boys. All the hot money is going from Tokyo to the U.S.” Indeed, indexes that track the over-the-counter market and the American. Stock Exchange issues where many smaller companies trade have underperformed the Dow in recent weeks. Monday, the Nasdaq index rose a meager 0.17, to 429.25, and the Amex index fell 0.85, to 339.05. Among the blue chips, Du Pont added IV 4 , to 120; Merck to 169V 4 ; General Electric 2V B , to and IBM 1%, to 163V 4 . Other technology stocks were strong: Digital Equipment rose 2 3 / 4 , to 170 7 / 8 , and Cray Research 1%, to

Legal Notice NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION NO. 1-1987 Motice is hereby given the taxpayers ot the Town of Cloverdale, Indiana. Putnam County. Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place at 7 o'clock P.M. on the 13th day of July, 1987 will consider the following appropriation which said officers will consider necessary to meet the extra-ordinary emergency existing at this time. Town General Fund To: No. 232 Police Repairs ’500.00 Taxpayers appearing at such meeting have the right to be heard. Additional appropriation as finally made will be referred to the State Board at Tax Commissioners, which board, upon receipt, will hold a final hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor s Office of Putnam County, or such other place as may be designated. At such hearing. Taxpayers objecting to any of such additional appropriation may be heard. Interested taxpayers may inquire at the County Auditor's Office when and where such hearings will be. Ruby Barnett Clerk-Treasurer June 16/23/2T NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF Charles A. Owen, deceased PUTNAM CIRCUIT COURT 1986 TERM IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Charles A. Owen, deceased ESTATE NO. EST-86-72 Notice is hereby given that Mary V. Owen as Executrix of the above named estate, has presented and filed her final report and account in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for examination and action of the Putnam Circuit Court on July 20, 1987, unless persons interested in said estate appear gp or before said date and show cause, if any there be, why such accounting should not be approved or unless such person make proof of heirship and claim any part of the estate not included in this report. If you have no objections to this report it will not be necessary tor you to appear. Mary V. Owen Executrix Dated: June 18,1987 J. David Hollingsworth Hollingsworth. Meek & Miller, P.C. Attorneys For Estate June 23-1 T

STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF PUTNAM SS: IN THE PUTNAM CIRCUIT COURT TERM. 1987 IN THE MATTER OF ESTATE OF EDNA MARIE LANE, DECEASED Estate No. 86-122 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF EDNA MARIE LANE In the matter of the Estate of Edna Marie Lane, deceased. No. Est. 86-122 Notice is hereby given that Patricia L. Nicholson as Administrator of the above named estate, has presented and filed her final account in final setI tlement of said estate, and that the I same will come up for the examination I and action of said Circuit Court, on the I 20th of July, 1987, at which time all perI sons interested in said estate are I required to appear in said court and I show cause, if any there be, why said I account should not be approved. And I the heirs of said decedent and all I others interested are also required to I appear and make proof of their heirship I or claim to any part of said estate. Patricia L. Nicholson Personal Representative Nancy A. Michael I Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court I Sutherlin and Zeiner I Attorney for Estate I June 23-1 T I NOTICE TO ALL | PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE lOF NORA ALICE BRUMFIELD, I deceased I PUTNAM CIRCUIT COURT 1987 TERM I IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF I NORA ALICE BRUMFIELD. Deceased | ESTATE NO. EST-67C01-8701-ES-4 | Notice is hereby given that Raymond I Butler as Executor of the above named I estate, has presented and filed his final I report and account in final settlement I of said estate, and that the same will I come up for examination and action of I the Putnam Circuit Court on July 17, I 1987, unless persons interested in said I estate appear on or before said date I and show cause, if any there be, why I such accounting should not be apI proved or unless such person make I proof of heirship and claim any part of I the estate not included in this report. If I you have no objections to this report it I will not be necessary for you to appear. Raymond Butler Executor E Nancy A. Michael S Clerk of Putnam Circuit Court I Dated: June 17.1987 I J. Frank Durham I Attorney For Estate I June 23-1 T I STATE OF INDIANA ■ COUNTY OF PUTNAM I SS: IN THE PUTNAM CIRUCIT COURT I IN RE THE CHANGE I OF NAME OF I BERNIECE ALBRIGHT. Petitioner. i CAUSE NO. 67C01-8706-M1232 i NOTICE OF CHANGE OF NAME El All interested persons are notified ■ that, on June sth, 1987, Berniece ■ Albright of Putnam County, Indiana, I petitioned the Putnam Circuit Court to ■ change her name to "Berniece ■ Van Hook and that such petition ■ should be heard by the Putnam Circuit I Court on August 11,1987, at 9:00 a.m. I Dated: June 5,1987 Nancy A. Michael K Clerk. Putnam Circuit Court I BREMER & COOK ■ By K.J. Cook H Attorneys for Petitioner June 9-16-23-3 T ■ LEGAL NOTICE OF K PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC B SERVICE COMMISSION OF B INDIANA DOCKET NO. 38149 ■ IN THE MATTER OF AN IN- ■ VESTIGATION TO DETERMINE THE EXH TENT OF REGULATION OF WIDE AREA ■ TELEPHONE SERVICE (WATS) ■ RESELLERS BY THE COMMISSION I PURSUANT TO PUBLIC LAW 92-1985. ■ IC 8-1-2.6-1, ET. SEO. ■ Notice is hereby given that the Public ■ Service Commission of Indiana will H conduct a public hearing in this Cause ■ in Room 907 of the State Office ■ Building. Indianapolis, Indiana com- ■ mencing at 9:30 a m. local time, on July ■ 14,1987. te Public participation is requested. PUBLIC SERVICE H COMMISSION OF INDIANA By: L.D. Philpott, Secretary (317)232-2701 ■ Date: June 17,1987 June 23/1T ißannerGraphic I ads get results I Call 653-5151

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