Wine-tippling in China 9,000 years ago
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Wine, the elixir of the gods, may be as old as human history, and a team of archaeologists who combine their science with chemistry has found evidence that Chinese were already enjoying sips of fermented rice, honey and fruit in the late Stone Age, more
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By Victoria Advocate, Texas  Dec. 16--U.S. government bureaucrats introduced the Chinese tallow tree along the Texas Gulf Coast around 1900 for a productive reason. The native Asian species produces wax-covered seeds that experts hoped could be turned into a moneymaking agricultural crop.
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405 years, unmolested by science Scientists have dredged up the oldest known living creature and have called it Ming.â¦
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Were early mammals timid creatures suitable only for eating? Not all of them, suggest two remarkable fossils from China
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Among the roots of ancient olive trees, archaeologists have found pieces of large stone jars of the type the Gospel says Jesus used when he turned water into wine at a Jewish wedding in the Galilee village of Cana.
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It's been around for thousands of years. It has been worshiped, reviled, banned, and made the cornerstone of economies. It has helped us celebrate, weep, relax, and get laid. And now we're going to make some. A pint, a glass, an ale, a lager, a beer.
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For wine snobs, it could be the ultimate vintage guaranteed to impress: A 9,000-year-old prehistoric preserved wine dug up from the Neolithic village of Jiahu in northern China.
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When French winemaker Laurent Metge-Toppin first saw the floating vineyards of Thailand's Chao Phraya river delta, he knew he would struggle to make a wine worthy of his vintner ancestors in the Cotes du Rhone.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7,000 BC in northern China.
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In one of the earliest hints of "modern" living, humans 164,000 years ago put on primitive makeup and hit the seashore for steaming mussels, new archaeological finds show.
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A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
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Agriculture was taking root in South America almost as early as the first farmers were breaking ground in the Middle East, new research indicates. Evidence that squash was being grown nearly 10,000 years ago, in what is now Peru, is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
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By Lourdes Medrano, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 12--The grandfather of Mary Wong arrived in Tucson in the early 1880s, searching for the Gold Mountain he had heard so much about in China.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Archaeologists say they've found one of the oldest traces ever of human chocolate consumption in pottery vessels more than 3,000 years old.
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Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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The findings are considered a significant step toward understanding who were some of the first ancestors to migrate out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.