Ceramic samples from the six categories of pottery analyzed. 1 = Chican-Ostionoid (217), 2 = Indigenous undecorated (231), 3 = buren (220), 4 = Spanish olive jar (175), 5 = European glazed (227), 6 = green bacin (229). Scale = 5 cm. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2023). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-023-01771-y

Earliest Evidence Of Wine Consumption In The Americas Found In Caribbean

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have found what they believe to be the earliest known evidence of wine drinking in the Americas, inside ceramic artifacts recovered from a small Caribbean island. Forty ceramic sherds were examined in the first study to have used molecular analysis techniques—Gas Chromatography and Mᴀss Spectrometry—to investigate 15th century pottery […]