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Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern ; with a foreword by Robert G. Mondavi and a new foreword by the author

By: McGovern, Patrick E [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Princeton science library: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019Copyright date: �2019Edition: First Princeton Science Library edition.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0691198969; 9780691198965.Subject(s): Wine and wine making -- Middle East -- History | Viticulture -- Middle East -- History | Viticulture -- History | Viticulture -- Histoire | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology | Wine and wine making | Viticulture | Middle EastGenre/Form: Electronic books. | History.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ancient wine.DDC classification: 634.809 | 641.2/0956 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine -- CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis -- CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine -- CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine! -- CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs -- CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age -- CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World's First Cities -- CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East -- CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land's Bounty -- CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia -- CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World -- CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future -- Afterword -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS AND OBJECT DIMENSIONS -- Index
Summary: "A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture. In a new afterword, the author discusses exciting recent developments in the understanding of ancient wine, including a new theory of how viniculture came to central and northern Europe"-- Provided by publisher
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"A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient viniculture. In a new afterword, the author discusses exciting recent developments in the understanding of ancient wine, including a new theory of how viniculture came to central and northern Europe"-- Provided by publisher

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine -- CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis -- CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine -- CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine! -- CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs -- CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age -- CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World's First Cities -- CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East -- CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land's Bounty -- CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia -- CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World -- CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future -- Afterword -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS AND OBJECT DIMENSIONS -- Index

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