While it's cool they found some of these long tubes or straws, we've known that Sumerians would communally drink from beer barrels through long straws for a long time. There's art depicting it, descriptions on tablets, etc...
Is there any indication that the Maykops were Sumerian?
My bad, they're a little outside Mesopotamia. Skimmed over the map of where Maykop is located.
They're close enough they were obviously influenced by them 4k years ago though.
Accurate or not, the title of the article is "Party like a Sumerian"
I think the point is that these particular tubes were not recognised as drinking tubes until now.
Funny how I immediately imagined WW2 when I read 'Maikop'. Now I am down the rabbit hole on Wikipedia's Maykop culture :)
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