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# Thirteen vessels 4,500 years old found in north-eastern Poland
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/v-severo-vostochnoi-polshe-nashli-trinadtsat-sosudov-vozrastom-4500-let/
- Published: 2026-05-20T12:28:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:04.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Observations, Science, Ethnography

Thirteen vessels 4,500 years old have been found in north-eastern Poland. Nine of them bear chemical traces of fermentation: lactic, acetic and levulinic acids, the by-products of yeasts and bacteria, and biomarkers of wheat and barley, fruit and resins.

The researchers from the University of Warsaw call the find "beer or a northern grog".

The vessels come neither from a kitchen nor from a tavern. They were gathered from ritual and funerary complexes at Supraśl and Skrzeszew. In other words, the drinking was done not at dinner but in seeing off the dead and in performing the rites of the Bell Beaker culture.

The most curious thing is that these lands knew no agriculture in the Forest Neolithic, an age given over to hunting and gathering. The question is, where did the barley come from, Zin? The grain for brewing was imported from regions where cereals were already being cultivated. So before the locals had any bread of their own, a logistics network serving the production of alcohol was already at work.

Cultural priorities, as usual, take shape before the economy able to support them: first the ritual beer, and the rest will follow