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Ancient Wine : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture /

"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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Autor principal: McGovern, Patrick E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.