The drinking of African Indigenous beers is an expression of a variety of identities from age, gender, status, ethnicity, and can serve to either bond or exclude people in a community. Beer has a deep history in Africa connecting the living with their ancestors, as well as motivating people to work as a form of reciprocity or economic payment. This study analyzes the intersection of beer and pottery using both archaeological and ethnoarchaeological analyses of pottery by examining the Konso society in southern Ethiopia. Beer production and consumption is essential as it is the agency that brings together different Konso lineages and serves as a daily food, reciprocal exchange, and a ritual libation. This paper uses previous ethnoarchaeological use-alteration analysis of household pottery assemblages as a baseline to compare to archaeological pottery assemblages from two Konso leather worker sites occupied over the last century. The archaeological pottery assemblages from these two Konso sites indicates that they were producing beer to increase their economic well being and drinking beer as part of their daily food.

饮用非洲土著啤酒是对年龄、性别、地位、种族的各种身份认同的一种表达，可以用来联系或排斥社区中的人们。啤酒在非洲有着悠久的历史，它将生者与祖先联系起来，并作为一种互惠或经济支付方式激励人们工作。本研究通过考察埃塞俄比亚南部的孔索社会，使用陶器的考古学和民族考古学分析来分析啤酒和陶器的交集。啤酒的生产和消费至关重要，因为它是将不同的 Konso 血统汇集在一起​​的机构，并作为日常食物、相互交流和仪式祭酒。本文使用先前对家庭陶器组合的民族考古学使用变化分析作为基线，与上个世纪占用的两个 Konso 皮革工人遗址的考古陶器组合进行比较。来自这两个 Konso 遗址的考古陶器组合表明，他们生产啤酒是为了增加他们的经济福利，并将啤酒作为日常食物的一部分。