Women brewers

This one of the shawl pins found on the floor of a 1,000-year-old brewery built by the Wari empire high in the Andes mountains of Peru. The finding suggests the brewers who made the brew — based on a pepper tree berry and known today as chicha — were wealthy women of the highest social class.

(The Field Museum)
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