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
Table of Contents:
  • Stone age wine
  • The Noah hypothesis
  • The archaeological and chemical hunt for the earliest wine
  • Neolithic wine!
  • Wine of the earliest pharaohs
  • Wine of Egypt's golden age
  • Wine of the world's first cities
  • Wine and the great empires of the ancient Near East
  • The Holy Land's bounty
  • Lands of Dionysos : Greece and western Anatolia
  • A beverage for King Midas and at the limits of the civilized world
  • Molecular archaeology, wine, and a view to the future.

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