The metal straws were used to drink from communal vessels during banquets, according to a new study.
Of critical importance to the reanalysis was the detection of barley granules inside one of the straws, in addition to cereal phytoliths and pollen grains from a lime tree. This was taken as direct evidence that the tubes were used for drinking. And because traces of barley were found, the scientists say the beverage in question was likely beer.fermented barley.
, but as the researchers point out, they “cannot prove conclusively the presence of a fermented beverage,” so “results should therefore be treated with caution, as further analyses are needed.”Reconstruction showing eight straws being used communally and one being used individually.Importantly, the tips of the Maikop straws were equipped with metal strainers, which likely performed the function of filtering out impurities—a common feature of ancient beer.
artworks depicting the practice. As for the oldest evidence of drinking straws, that dates back to the 5th and 4th millennia BCE, as evidenced by artworkA silver tube tip-strainer yielded evidence of barley starch granules, pollen grain from a lime tree, and ceretal phytolith.what they are—are special in that they’re the oldest surviving drinking straws in the archaeological record, but they appear to have originated in the Middle East, hundreds of miles away from the northern Caucasus.
“The finds contribute to a better understanding of the ritual banquets’ early beginnings and drinking culture in hierarchical societies,” Trifonov said. “Such practices must have been important and popular enough to spread between the two regions.”Indeed, the presence of drinking straws in the Maikop Kurgan hint at cultural and economic ties between the regions.
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