A 2,300-year-old Chinese tomb held a sealed bronze bottle, and scientists found beer still preserved inside

A bronze bottle buried for more than two millennia has offered an unexpectedly detailed glimpse into everyday life during one ...
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Qu-based brewing in Bronze Age China: Pottery residue offers insights into Mogou mortuary rituals

In a study by Dr. Yinzhi Cui and his colleagues published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, the contents of 42 pottery vessels from the Bronze Age site of Mogou were analyzed. The ...
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Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age Chinese secret to brewing red rice wine

Bronze Age pottery unearthed in northwest China has revealed the secret to making red rice wine that was ceremonially consumed in the region in the second millennium BC. Previous research has ...
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The archaeology of China : from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age / Li Liu, Stanford University, Xingcan Chen, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chinese archaeology : past, present, and future -- Environment and ecology -- Foragers and collectors in the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (24,000-9000 cal. BP) -- Domestication of plants and ...
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China's earliest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact unearthed at Sanxingdui sacrificial site

In a study published in Archaeological Research in Asia, Dr. Haichao Li and a team of researchers analyzed the earliest Bronze Age meteoritic iron artifact from southwestern China, the largest found ...
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The Great Bronze Age of China : a symposium / George Kuwayama, editor

The origin of Shang and the problem of Xia in Chinese archaeology / K.C. Chang -- Some Anyang royal bronzes / Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber -- Western Zhou history reconstructed from bronze inscriptions ...
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Sanxingdui: China's Bronze Age mystery culture

Sanxingdui reveals a forgotten Chinese culture, with bronze masks featuring bulging eyes. This discovery overturns our ...