Archaeologists find evidence of drinking beer 9,000 years ago in southern China
HANGZHOU, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) — People in southern China learnt to brew beer from crops and plants about 9,000 years ago, according to findings during an excavation at the Qiaotou site in Yiwu City, known as the world’s supermarket, in east China’s Zhejiang Province. The findings come from work by Chinese archaeologists Leping Jiang and Hanlong Sun, of the Zhejiang Cultural Relics Archaeological Institute in China, who co-authored the study. […]