It was reported on March 17 that the team of Professor Yang Yimin from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (National University of Science and Technology) recently cooperated with the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology to study fruit wine residues in the remains of the liquid and silt unearthed from the Zhou Dynasty Beibai Goe Cemetery in Shanxi This not only fills the gap in the study of fruit wine in the pre-Qin period in China, but is also the earliest known archaeological evidence of fruit wine found in East Asia.

The picture shows a sample of the Zhou Dynasty fruit wine remains used for research displayed by the laboratory of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The plastic bag contains a silt sample.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa


Release time: 2021-03-17 20:01:46 【Editor: Li Jun】