A cannabis route preceded the silk route. According to German archaeologists, a people of horsemen from the steppes would have widely distributed hemp – and perhaps its psychoactive use – from 5000 years BC. J.-C. The cannabis trade boomed in the Bronze Age. INDO-EUROPEANS. The Yamna, horsemen fro
In 1938, the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union launched the Khorasmian Archaeological and Ethnographic Expedition , under the direction of Sergey Pavlovitch Tolstov. Their objective was to investigate the Korasmia region, an area that extended from the north of the so-called Greater Iran (pres
The researcher of this project , André Strauss, from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Max Planck Institute, together with the collaboration by Domingo Salazar-García, a biomolecular archaeologist from the Department of Prehistory at the University of Valencia, have published the re
We mostly know it as white, blonde, red or brown… But 9,000 years ago, it was a “rice beer” that was consumed in China, and this, in a very specific context. The analysis detected beer residue in eight containers out of the twenty that were studied. The production of beer dates back to the begin