Although the oldest evidence of mead in Europe is from the Bell Beaker culture, 3rd millennium BC, traces of fermented honey is known from 9,000 year old pots used by hunter-gatherers in north China, according to the 2010 book by H.B. Long.
English 'mead', as well as Old Norse 'mjǫðr', Lithuanian 'midus', Slavic 'medovukha' and Sanskrit 'madhu' descend from the Proto-Indo-European word for honey, *médʰu.
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