section_path: History/Prehistory
section_name: Prehistory
paragraph_text: Prehistory
  
  Discovery of late Stone Age jugs suggests that intentionally fermented drinks existed at least as early as the Neolithic period.
  
  The oldest verifiable brewery has been found in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in modern-day Israel. Researchers have found residue of 13,000-year-old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead. The traces of a wheat-and-barley-based alcohol were found in stone mortars carved into the cave floor.