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Elite Women Made Beer in Pre-Incan Culture

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Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Managing Editor
LiveScience.com Mon Nov 14, 6:00 PM ET

An ancient brewery from a vanished empire was staffed by elite women who were selected for their beauty or nobility, a new study concludes.

The finding adds to other evidence that women played a more crucial role in ancient Andean societies than history books have stated. It may also in some ways reflect modern drinking traditions in the Andean mountains, where women get drunk as much as men, researchers say.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20051114/sc_space/elitewomenmadebeerinpreincanculture

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