쉐도잉 연습: When Did Ancient Humans Start Drinking Alcohol? - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기
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Right now, you're probably drunk or about to get drunk, and the last time you had a drink, beer, wine, whatever, you probably just drank it and forgot about it.
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But what you did is one of the oldest things a human being can do.
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It's older than writing, older than farming.
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It actually predates humans' beings entirely.
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Because our relationship with alcohol doesn't start a few thousand years ago with the invention of wine or the first brewery.
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It starts about 10 million years ago, on a forest floor in Africa, with a small primate picking up a piece of fruit that had been sitting on the ground for too long.
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In 2014, a biologist at UC Berkeley named Robert Dudley published a book called The Drunken Monkey.
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His argument was simple.
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When fruit falls from a tree and sits on the ground, the natural sugars inside it start breaking down.
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Yeast gets in.
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Fermentation begins.
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And the fruit starts producing small amounts of ethanol.
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And when primates ate that fruit, the ethanol inside it made them feel a little drunk.
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They had no idea why, but it felt good, so they kept coming back for more.
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Over millions of years, our ancestors didn't just tolerate alcohol, they evolved to look for it.
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So by the time ancient humans actually showed up, the taste for it was already built in.
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It was there long before anyone figured out how to make it on purpose.
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The question is, when did they figure that out?
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In 2018, archaeologists were excavating a cave near Haifa, Israel.
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The cave is called Rakafet, and it was used by a group called the Natufians about 13 ,000 years ago.
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Inside, they found stone mortars carved directly into the bedrock.
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When they analyzed the residue left in those mortars, they found traces of wheat and barley that had been soaked, germinated, and left to ferment.
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That's beer, brewed in a cave 13 ,000 years ago.
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Now, here's what makes that finding so important.
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The Natufians were not farmers.
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They hadn't invented agriculture yet.
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But they were still collecting wild grain by hand and hunting animals for meat.
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They didn't grow the barley, they found it.
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But somehow, making beer was important enough that they figured that out first.
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Think about that.
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Because up until this discovery, the story goes like this.
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Humans settled down, started farming, built villages, and then eventually discovered fermentation and started making drinks.
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Alcohol came after civilization, but Roccafet Cave says the opposite.
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These people were brewing while they were still nomadic, and they aren't the only ones.
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About a thousand years later, someone in southeastern Turkey built something enormous.
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At a site called Göbekli Tepe, massive stone pillars, some weighing over ten tons, were arranged in careful circles and carved with images of animals.
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The whole structure was deliberate and complex, and it was built before farming, before pottery, before anyone in the region had a permanent home.
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These were still hunter -gatherers. For years, archaeologists couldn't explain why nomadic people would organize the labor needed to move 10 -ton stones up a hill
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and carve them with precision.
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What would motivate that?
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Then they found large stone vats at the site.
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When they tested the insides, they found chemical traces of fermented grain.
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People were brewing at Gobekli Tepe.
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Not small amounts, enough for large gatherings.
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The current theory is that this site wasn't a home.
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It was a gathering place for ritual and feasting.
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People traveled from across the region, came together, and drank.
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And this raises a question that's been debated for decades.
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Why did humans start farming?
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An archaeobotanist named Patrick McGovern, the leading expert on ancient alcohol in the world, has spent decades arguing that humans didn't start farming to make bread.
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They started farming to make beer.
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And, I couldn't agree more.
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He says that bread requires grinding, kneading, and baking.
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It's a complex process.
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Beer is simpler.
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You soak grain in water, leave it alone, and fermentation happens by itself.
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And the desire to drink would have been a stronger motivator than the desire to eat grain in a slightly different form.
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If he's right, then alcohol isn't something that showed up after humans settled down.
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It might be the reason they settled down in the first place.
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By 7000 BCE, the evidence gets more precise.
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In a Neolithic village called Jiahu in central China, archaeologists found pottery jars containing residue from a fermented drink made of rice, honey, grapes, and hawthorn berries.
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Chemical analysis confirmed the ingredients and the fermentation process.
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This is the oldest confirmed recipe for alcohol anywhere in the world.
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And it wasn't crude, it was a blend—multiple ingredients, carefully chosen and combined.
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Whoever made this knew exactly what they were doing.
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From there, it only grew.
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By the time ancient Egypt came around, beer wasn't something people made for fun.
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It was woven into everything.
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Workers who built the pyramids were paid, in beer, about four to five liters a day.
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That was their actual salary.
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Not coins, not grain, but beer.
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And it made sense, because the water from the Nile was often contaminated and unsafe to drink straight.
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But beer, because of the brewing process, was cleaner.
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So it kept people alive in a way water couldn't.
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Honestly, if you were working in the desert heat
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and someone gave you a choice between a bag of coins or five liters of cold beer, what are you picking?
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Ahem.
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Yeah.
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Same.
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And on top of that, the brewing process added calories and nutrients.
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For a laborer dragging limestone blocks in the desert heat, those extra calories mattered.
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Beer wasn't just a drink.
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It was lunch.
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And then there was the religious side.
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The Egyptians believed beer was created by Osiris and given to humans as a gift.
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It showed up in temple offerings, burial rituals, and medical prescriptions.
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Doctors would mix herbs into beer and prescribe it for everything from stomach problems to infections.
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So one single drink was doing the job of a paycheck, a water filter, a meal, a medicine, and a prayer, all from the same cup.
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So here's the full picture.
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Ten million years ago, your ancestors were drawn to fermented fruit because it helped them find food.
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13 ,000 years ago, they were deliberately brewing in caves before they knew how to farm.
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12 ,000 years ago, they were possibly building the first monuments in human history just to have a place to drink together.
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9 ,000 years ago, they had recipes.
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5 ,000 years ago, entire civilizations were running on it.
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Alcohol didn't come after we built the world we live in.
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There's a real possibility that it's the reason we built it at all.
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Every time you have a drink, you're continuing something that started before your species had a name for itself.
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The process changed, the ingredients improved, the cups got fancier.
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But the impulse is the same one
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that made a small primate reach for a piece of overripe fruit on a forest floor 10 million years ago.
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We just learned how to make it on purpose.
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If you want to dig deeper into any of this, all the research is linked down in the description version.
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이 말하기 레슨은 영상 “When Did Ancient Humans Start Drinking Alcohol?”을(를) 바탕으로 합니다. 가장 자주 반복되는 단어는 다음과 같습니다: beer, drink, alcohol, built, farming. 이 영상에는 섀도잉할 문장 102개와 단어 1202개가 있습니다. 말하는 구간의 길이는 6:03입니다. 화자는 분당 약 199단어로 빠르게 말하므로 연음과 약하게 발음되는 소리가 많습니다. 영어에서 가장 많이 쓰이는 3,000단어에 속하는 단어가 77%뿐이라 어휘가 어려운 편입니다.
이 영상의 핵심 어휘
영상에 나오는 익혀 둘 만한 단어 15개를 발음, 뜻과 함께 정리했습니다.
| 단어 | 발음 | 뜻 |
|---|---|---|
| cave 명사 | /keɪv/ | 동굴, 굴 |
| grain 명사 | /ɡɹeɪn/ | 곡물 |
| ingredient 명사 | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | 성분 |
| confirm 동사 | /kənˈfɝm/ | 확인하다 |
| desert 명사 | /ˈdɛz.ɚt/ | 사막 |
| coin 명사 | /ˈkoɪ̯n/ | 동전, 코인 |
| trace 명사 | /tɹeɪs/ | 흔적, 자국 |
| ritual 명사 | /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl/ | 의식, 의례 |
| civilization 명사 | /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | 문명 |
| mortar 명사 | /ˈmɔːtə/ | 모르타르 |
| pottery 명사 | /ˈpɑtəɹi/ | 도자기, 도기 |
| soak 동사 | /soʊk/ | 잠기다 |
| calorie 명사 | /ˈkæləɹi/ | 칼로리 |
| meal 명사 | /ˈmiːl/ | 끼니, 밥 |
| argue 동사 | /ˈɑɹ.ɡju/ | 논하다, 의논하다 |
영상에 나오는 구동사
| 단어 | 뜻 |
|---|---|
| pick up 동사 | 줍다 |
주의할 발음
화자는 didn't, wasn't, couldn't 같은 축약형과 약화된 형태를 17번 사용합니다. 들리는 대로 짧게 발음하세요.
- “th” 소리: gathering /ˈɡæð.ɚ.ɪŋ/, gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, ethanol /ˈɛθ.ə.nɑl/, hawthorn /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/
- “sh”와 “zh” 소리: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/, precision /pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/, prescription /pɹəˈskɹɪp.ʃən/
- 긴 단어 — 강세 위치에 주의: ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, agriculture /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, deliberate /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/
한국어 화자가 어려워하는 소리:
- /f/ — ㅍ(/p/)으로 바꾸지 말고 윗니를 아랫입술에 대기: confirm /kənˈfɝm/, carefully /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/, fancy /ˈfæn.si/, infection /ɪnˈfɛkʃən/, filter /ˈfɪltɚ/
- /v/ — ㅂ(/b/)과 구별하기: cave /keɪv/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, discovery /dɪˈskʌv.ɹi/, whoever /huˈɛvɚ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- /z/ — ㅈ이 아니라 성대를 울리는 /s/: desert /ˈdɛz.ɚt/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, residue /ˈɹɛzɪduː/, organize /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
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- 먼저 말하지 않고 영상을 끝까지 듣고 모르는 단어를 적어 둡니다.
- 0.75배속으로 한 문장씩 섀도잉을 시작하고, 익숙해지면 보통 속도로 돌아갑니다.
- 자신의 목소리를 녹음해 원본과 비교하고, cave, grain, ingredient 같은 단어에 특히 주의합니다.
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