num_pages: 684
description: Archaelogists and anthropologists (especially ethnologists) have for many years realised that man's ingestion of alcoholic beverages may well have played a significant part in his transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculturalist. This unqiue book provides a scientific text on the subject of 'ethanol' that also aims to include material designed to show 'non-scientists' what fermentation is all about. Conversely scientists may well be surprised to find the extent to which ethanol has played a part in evolution and civilisation of our species.
language: English
title: Alcohol and its Role in the Evolution of Human Society
publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry