McGovern, Patrick E.,

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 - First Princeton Science Library edition - 1 online resource : illustrations, maps - Princeton science library . - Princeton science library. .

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

"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"--

0691198969 9780691198965

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Wine and wine making--History.--Middle East
Viticulture--History.--Middle East
Viticulture--History.
Viticulture--Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Archaeology.
Wine and wine making.
Viticulture.


Middle East.


Electronic books.
History.

TP559.M53

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