Ancient Godin Tepe

Selected Excerpt on Godin Tepe

The Uruk Expansion: Cross Cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization
Guillermo Algaze in Current Anthropology -- Volume 30:5:1989 (571-608)

Archaeological site in what is now Iran showing the earliest (circa 3500-3100 BC) known evidence of beer production. The site is an Elamite village in the Zagros mountains and the chemical evidence of beer was identified in a ceramic vessel from this site, including tannin and tartrate crystals ...

The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium