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

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 ...

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 ...

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

This aerial photo taken on Aug 19, 2024, shows the panoramic view of the Jiahu Site Museum, in Wuyang county, Central China's Henan province. [Photo by Zhao Liang/For chinadaily.com.cn] In Beiwudu ...

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.

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 ...

Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage ...

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 ...