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Prehistoric silk found in Henan

Scientists have found evidence of silk dating back 8,500 years after testing soil samples from a Neolithic site in Henan province.

The discovery greatly advances the study of the material's history and Neolithic cultures, according to a report released on Monday by the University of Science and Technology of China.

Gong Decai, a professor with the college's scientific archaeology department, spent almost six years completing the research, which he also included in a recent article for Plos One, an international academic journal.

He said his team found evidence of prehistoric fibroin, an insoluble protein found in silk, in soil samples collected from three tombs at Jiahu, a Neolithic site in Henan's Wuyang county that had settlers as early as 7,000 BC. Read more.

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Grape And Grain

How’s the head? Hope you didn’t use the Festival of Mammon to hit the electric sauce too hard.

Our ability to process the ethanol present in alcohol (at least, in moderation!) has been regarded as a relatively recent evolutionary characteristic of Homo sapiens. After all, the first evidence that man knew how to brew alcohol  – clay pots found in the Neolithic village of Jiahu in China contained…

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