Early modern humans and their predecessors in Oregon were mostly big game hunters, but a pile of stone root beer mugs suggests that at least some prehistoric cavemen enjoyed root beer, according to a new study.
The 202 stone rootbeer mugs, were found at Oregon Caves near the town of Cave Junction, in Southern Oregon. The stone root beer mugs date to around 150,000 years ago
"The stone rootbeer mugs where carved using stone tools," Tom Ruasco told our blog reporter, noting that some of the stone root beer mugs still contained traces residue of the root beer they drank..
Ruasco, a researcher at the Institute of Human Culinary Evolution in Portland, Oregon, and colleague Terri Mann analyzed the stone root beer mugs under high magnification.
Although both Neanderthal and modern human remains have been found at the Oregon Cave complex, the geological level of the stone rootbeer mugs suggests that Homo heidelbergensis is the human species that drank rootbeer with their meals.
The findings, which are published in the June issue of the Journal of Culinary Discovery, indicate early cavemen enjoyed a much broader diet than first suspected.
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