This volume presents contemporary evidence scientific, archaeological, botanical, textual, and historical for major revisions in our understanding of winemaking in antiquity. Among the subjects covered are the domestication of the Vinifera grape, the wine trade, the iconography of ancient wine, and the analytical and archaeological challenges posed by ancient wines. The essayists argue that wine existed as long ago as 3500 BC, almost half a millennium earlier than experts believed.
Discover named these findings among the most important in 1991. Featuring the work of 23 internationally known scholars and writers, the book offers the first wide ranging treatment of wine in the early history of western Asia and the Mediterranean. Comprehensive and accessible while providing full documentation, it is sure to serve as a catalyst for future research.
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It is impossible to begin to describe the riches of this book...a major contribution to wine literature...recommended without reservation to anyone with an interest in grapes and wine in the past."
Series Editors Preface vii Foreword ix Patrick E. McGovern Introduction The Making of a Unique Conference, Its Accomplishments, and an Agenda for the Future xiii Patrick E. McGovern Acknowledgments xxi List of Contributors xxiii I. ANCIENT SAYINGS ABOUT WINE 1(338) Louis E. Grivetti II. GRAPES AND WINE: HYPOTHESES AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE Wine: The Food with Two Faces 9(14) Louis E. Grivetti The Domestication of the Grapevine Vitis Vinifera L. in the Near East 23(8) Daniel Zohary The Origin and Domestication of the Vinifera Grape 31(14) Harold P. Olmo The Archaeological Evidence for Winemaking, Distribution, and Consumption at Proto-Historic Godin Tepe, Iran 45(12) Virginia R. Badler The Analytical and Archaeological Challenge of Detecting Ancient Wine: Two Case Studies from the Ancient Near East 57(10) Patrick E. McGovern Rudolph H. Michael An Enologists Commentary on Ancient Wines 67(12) Vernon L. Singleton The Analysis of Wine and Other Organics Inside Amphoras of the Roman Period 79(10) Francoise Formenti J. M. Duthel III. THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF WINE: THE NEAR EAST AND EGYPT Fourth Millennium b.c. Trade in Greater Mesopotamia: Did It Include Wine? 89(8) Guillermo Algaze Wine and the Vine in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Cuneiform Evidence 97(26) Marvin A. Powell Searching for Wine in the Archaeological Record of Ancient Mesopotamia of the Third and Second Millennia b.c. 123(10) Richard L. Zettler Naomi F. Miller Viniculture and Ancient Anatolia 133(42) Ronald L. Gorny The Imagery of the Wine Bowl: Wine in Assyria in the Early First Millennium b.c. 175(22) David Stronach The Earliest History of Wine and Its Importance in Ancient Egypt 197(18) T. G. H. James Egyptian Wine Production During the New Kingdom 215(18) Leonard H. Lesko IV. THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF WINE: THE MEDITERRANEAN ``Canaanite Jars and the Late Bronze Age Aegeo-Levantine Wine Trade 233(22) Albert Leonard, Jr. Palaeoethnobotanical Finds of Vitis from Greece 255(14) Jane M. Renfrew Wine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegean 269(18) Ruth Palmer Empty Cups and Empty Jugs: The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Societies 287(24) James C. Wright The Beginnings of Grape Cultivation and Wine Production in Phoenician/Punic North Africa 311(12) Joseph A. Greene Wine Amphoras in Ancient Greek Trade 323(16) Carolyn G. Koehler Bibliography 339(64) Index 403
Patrick E. McGovern, Stuart J. Fleming, Solomon H. Katz
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