Posted on 11/07/2021 8:37:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Czech scientists have made a unique discovery suggesting that the oldest herbal millet beer could have been brewed in Bohemia. They came across the evidence while studying a 3000-year-old bronze vessel, unearthed in the village of Kladina in 2017.
The bronze vessel was discovered four years ago in a forest near the East Bohemian town of Pardubice. It was decorated with motifs of sun discs and swans, and is believed to have been hidden underground as an offering to the deities.
Archaeologist Martin Golec says similar bronze vessels have been found in Europe before. However, Czech archaeologists were the first ones to explore the content, storing the inner layers of the vessel for further research:
“The archaeologists saw remnants of sediment at the bottom when they pulled out the vessel from the ground. There was dirt residue both on the inside and outside. The chemist, who took the samples, thought it could be cereal grains, and indeed he was able to find a chemical fingerprint of millet.”
What the experts discovered was a substance called miliacin, considered to be an indicator of millet. They also detected traces of different herbs and cooked potato starch. This led them to believe that our ancestors used the vessel to make bitter herbal beer.
Following the discovery, chemist Lukáš Kučera from the University of Olomouc decided to brew the beer based on the old recipe. The beer is based on millet, wormwood and wild yeast.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.radio.cz ...
So..... they were trading with Peru 3000 years ago?
Really.
That’s the journalistic error to spot!
In a half-assed documentary on New Kdm of Egypt, a besieged city (Jericho I think) featured a pile of corn kernels to show they had food and could hold out for a while. Genius.
No joy so far.
That’s what you get in a depraved culture where everyone is special and has a full box of 11th place trophies. Nobody is forced to excel so they do not develop a need to win, a strong work ethic or to truly master their craft.
Romans must have brought potatoes back with them, after dropping off loads of bricks for the Mexican/Central American temples. :-’)
https://www.science-frontiers.com/sf099/sf099a01.htm
This beer making joint antedates the Roman Empire. :^)
A thousand yours this way; a thousand years that way: it all cancels out: Dem’s Newer Math.
:^)
The making of beer is a scientific exercise.......................
“... cooked potato starch...” LOL!
Here is the original in Czech: “Objevili i pozůstatky přidaných bylin a vaření škrobových zrn.” from this article
The translation of this is “They also discovered the remains of added herbs and cooked starch grains.”
Most green plants store energy as starch, which is packed into semicrystalline granules.
The original paper
In 2017, a luxury bronze bucket was discovered near Kladina village in the Czech Republic. The bucket is dated to the ninth century BCE, and it is a unique artefact, having no parallel in Europe. Stylistically, it is a “transition type” dated between the Late Bronze Age (11th–10th century BCE) and the Hallstatt Period (eighth–sixth century BCE).
Detailed palynological analysis of verdigris and soil infill of the bucket identified a wide range of pollen grains belonging mainly to herbs, with bitter-sour properties, and cereals. Subsequent chemical analysis by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry of soil extracts revealed the presence of the compound miliacin that is a chemical marker of millet. Moreover, a starch analysis reveals the presence of enzymatically modified starch grains. These data, with the help of archaeological knowledge, indicate that the original content may have been millet-based food/beverage with addition of herbs. We suggest that this luxury vessel, given the contents we have identified, was deposited, in the late spring/summer months of the year.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/arcm.12711
Problem solved.
Thanks AdmSmith! Update re-ping to list.
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