Fermented and alcoholic beverages have always had their place in the human diet, and researchers found evidence that dates back to ancient China.

The M511 Neolithic burial at the Jiahu archaeological site, China, is shown in this image. The burial was found to contain the remains of a child with mysterious bone modifications.

Ch. Jiahu, with Hawthorn AccentsChina has long prided itself on having come up with many of the world’s most important inventions. Now the country that gave us gunpowder, paper money and the ...

Researchers analyzed fish bones excavated from the Early Neolithic Jiahu site in Henan Province, China. By comparing the body-length distributions and species-composition ratios of the bones with ...

When scientists discovered fish bones at an Early Neolithic Jiahu site in Henan Province, China, they suspected the carcasses evidenced an aquaculture operation.

Their analysis of the Jiahu residues revealed traces of compounds found in rice, as well as the ancient Shang dynasty wines. They found that 13 of the 16 potsherds tested had contained the same ...

This Jiahu bone flute, the oldest musical instrument discovered in China, is on display at an exhibition of ancient Chinese musical instruments at the Southern Song Dynasty Guan Kiln Museum in ...

Artifacts from stone-age village McGovern’s team collected pieces of 16 pottery vessels at Jiahu, an early New Stone Age village in China’s Henan province.

Analyses of ancient pottery have yielded evidence the people living in northern China 9,000 years ago concocted a fermented, winelike drink from rice, honey, and fruit.

Although McGovern travels abroad less now than he did years ago, he recently returned from a trip to Denmark and Sweden, during which he recreated an ancient Nordic beverage. Each of the trips he ...