Ancient Wine : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture /

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"Patrick McGovern takes us on a personal odyssey back to the beginnings of this consequential beverage when early hominids probably enjoyed a wild grape wine. We follow the course of human ingenuity in domesticating the Eurasian vine and learning how to make and preserve wine some 7,000 years a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGovern, Patrick E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Viticulture > Middle East > To 622.
Drinking customs > Middle East > To 622.
Wine and wine making > Middle East > To 622.
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Wijnbouw.
Weinbau
Wein
Kultur
Wine and wine making.
Viticulture.
49.27 beverages (domestic science)
15.32 prehistoric and protohistoric archaeology.
Viticulture > Moyen-Orient > Histoire.
Vin > Moyen-Orient > Histoire.
Viticulture > Middle East > History.
Wine and wine making > Middle East > History.
Middle East > Social life and customs > To 622.
Naher Osten
Mittlerer Osten
Middle East.
History.
Internet resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Patrick McGovern takes us on a personal odyssey back to the beginnings of this consequential beverage when early hominids probably enjoyed a wild grape wine. We follow the course of human ingenuity in domesticating the Eurasian vine and learning how to make and preserve wine some 7,000 years ago. Early winemakers must have marveled at the seemingly miraculous process of fermentation. From success to success, viniculture stretched out its tentacles and entwined itself with one culture after another (whether Egyptian, Iranian, Israelite, or Greek) and laid the foundation for civilization itself. As medicine, social lubricant, mind-altering substance, and highly valued commodity, wine became the focus of religious cults, pharmacopoeias, cuisines, economies, and society. As an evocative symbol of blood, it was used in temple ceremonies and occupies the heart of the Eucharist. Kings celebrated their victories with wine and made certain that they had plenty for the afterlife. (Among the colorful examples in the book is McGovern's famous chemical reconstruction of the funerary feast - and mixed beverage - of "King Midas.") Some people truly became "wine cultures.""--Jacket.
Physical Description:1 online resource (400 pages): illustrations (some color) ;
ISBN:9781400849536

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