The Yangshao people are an ancient people who lived along the Yellow River, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization.
“This discovery provides fresh and important physical evidence to explore the relationship between the origin and development of the Paligang culture and the Yangshao culture,” said Li Yongqiang, an associate researcher at the Institute of Archeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. stated in the report.
This bottle has a small mouth and a pointed triangular base, and similar objects have been found in Yangshao burial grounds, ash pits, and houses.
The Yangshao culture, which inherited the Beili Port culture, is famous for its development of pottery, and excavations suggest that people buried children in painted ceramic pots.
However, the modern jars are 10 cm long, shorter than their Yangshao counterparts, suggesting whether these jars were used to carry water, aid fermentation, or simply be funerary objects. There is still debate as to whether this is the case.
Li hypothesized that the bottle could have been a container used to make the yeast, when combined with previous evidence that Panligang discovered how to make red yeast for fermentation. erected.
Evidence for red rice yeast fermentation was published in October 2023 in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Archaeologists claimed that the presence of mold made from rice and red yeast mold indicates that the Panligang people were making a fermentation starter called fermentation starter. Kuuused by ancient people to make alcoholic beverages.
This alcohol could have been made from a variety of ingredients, ranging from rice, millet, yams, to Job’s tears, a type of grass.
For the Peiligang people, rice was not very important for their livelihood and was often used to make alcohol, usually as part of funeral ceremonies.
The production of alcohol was a crucial reason why rice cultivation began to spread to China about 9,000 years ago.
Scientists believe the process began in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and spread northward to the northern Yellow River.
“The Peiligan and Shuiquan sites in the middle reaches of the Yellow River provide early examples of this diffusion process,” the study authors wrote.
Other artifacts recently discovered at the Panli Port site, thought to be about 7,600 to 8,000 years old, included ostrich shells, red iron ore, and stone products.
These are important. This is because the Paligang ruins are one of the oldest villages discovered in China, and are important in understanding how people transitioned from a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer society to a Neolithic agricultural culture. It means providing important evidence.
It is believed that the village was first inhabited in 7,000 BC and was abandoned due to a flood in 5,700 BC.