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Underground History: Digging Some Bourbon

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Nick Laracuente at work.

There are certainly sub-specialties within the field of archaeology, but... bourbon?  We can give an emphatic yes. 

People have been drinking alcoholic beverages for millennia, so there are always interesting sites to find showing the history of making and consuming beer, wine, and spirits.  So this month on Underground History, we talk about Bourbon Archaeology; the site by that name and the practices within. 

Finds include the dig at a Tennessee bourbon distillery that yielded the foundations of a much older (more than 200 years) distillery.  Chelsea Rose from the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology returns, with guest bourbon archaeologist Nicolas Laracuente. 

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