Sentences with phrase «on pottery shards»

9,000 years ago — World's oldest known fermented beverage, a rice wine made with honey and fruit, from traces on pottery shards found in the village of Jiahu in northern...

* But whereas scientists have uncovered a wealth of archaeological evidence — including microscopic starches on pottery shards that point to the taming of many crops from the Americas as far back as 10,000 years ago — the record is blank when it comes to the tomato.

The oldest fermented beverage known is a 9,000 - year - old rice and honey wine identified on pottery shards from the village of Jiahu in central China.

Milky residues on pottery shards found in the Libyan Sahara confirm that the first farmers there were cow herders not crop cultivators

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A woman who had a flint would start a fire, and she would place hot coals on a shard of pottery.

It is Job on the waste tip, scratching himself with shards of pottery and screaming at God; it is the psalmist crying, «How long, oh Lord, how long?»

Meet Hannah Marshall from the Beach Shack Project who designs and makes sea glass jewellery from shards of sea glass and sea pottery she finds washed up on the shore

Beeswax residues found on shards of stone age pottery in the Mediterranean region indicate that humans were keeping honeybees as early as 9,000 years ago

Now there's new evidence for such literacy — in the form of notes from that same time period, written in ink on shards of pottery.

So she makes assemblages of shells, rocks, bones and other beach finds, as well as wall hangings on handmade Japanese paper that feature rubbings of trees, insects, tombstones and pottery shards.