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The origins and ancient history of wine / edited by Patrick E. McGovern, Stuart J. Fleming and Solomon H. Katz.

Contributor(s): Mcgovern, Patrick E | Fleming, Stuart | Katz, Solomon, 1909-Material type: TextTextSeries: Food and nutrition in history and anthropology ; v. 11Publication details: Australia : Gordon and Breach, 1996. Description: xxiii, 409 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 2881245773; 9782881245770; 9056995229; 9789056995225; 9056995227Subject(s): Wine and wine making -- History | Wine industry -- History | Wine and wine making | Wine industryGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 641.2209 LOC classification: TP549 | .O72 1995
Contents:
Introduction: The Making of a Unique Conference, Its Accomplishments, and an Agenda for the Future / Patrick E. McGovern -- Ancient Sayings About Wine / Louis E. Grivetti -- 1. Wine: The Food with Two Faces / Louis E. Grivetti -- 2. The Domestication of the Grapevine Vitis Vinefera L. in the Near East / Daniel Zohary -- 3. The Origin and Domestication of the Vinifera Grape / Harold P. Olmo -- 4. The Archaeological Evidence for Winemaking, Distribution, and Consumption at Proto-Historic Godin Tepe, Iran / Virginia R. Badler -- 5. The Analytical and Archaeological Challenge of Detecting Ancient Wine: Two Case Studies from the Ancient Near East / Patrick E. McGovern and Rudolph H. Michel -- 6. An Enologist's Commentary on Ancient Wines / Vernon L. Singleton -- 7. The Analysis of Wine and Other Organics Inside Amphoras of the Roman Period / Francoise Formenti and J. M. Duthel -- 8. Fourth Millennium B.C. Trade in Greater Mesopotamia: Did It Include Wine? / Guillermo Algaze -- 9. Wine and the Vine in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Cuneiform Evidence / Marvin A. Powell -- 10. Searching for Wine in the Archaeological Record of Ancient Mesopotamia of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. / Richard L. Zettler and Naomi F. Miller -- 11. Viniculture and Ancient Anatolia / Ronald L. Gorny -- 12. The Imagery of the Wine Bowl: Wine in Assyria in the Early First Millennium B.C. / David Stronach -- 13. The Earliest History of Wine and Its Importance in Ancient Egypt / T. G. H. James -- 14. Egyptian Wine Production During the New Kingdom / Leonard H. Lesko -- 15. "Canaanite Jars" and the Late Bronze Age Aegeo-Levantine Wine Trade / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- 16. Palaeoethnobotanical Finds of Vitis from Greece / Jane M. Renfrew -- 17. Wine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegean / Ruth Palmer -- 18. Empty Cups and Empty Jugs: The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Societies / James C. Wright -- 19. The Beginnings of Grape Cultivation and Wine Production in Phoenician/Punic North Africa / Joseph A. Greene -- 20. Wine Amphoras in Ancient Greek Trade / Carolyn G. Koehler.
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Includes bibliographical references (p.339-402) and index.

Introduction: The Making of a Unique Conference, Its Accomplishments, and an Agenda for the Future / Patrick E. McGovern -- Ancient Sayings About Wine / Louis E. Grivetti -- 1. Wine: The Food with Two Faces / Louis E. Grivetti -- 2. The Domestication of the Grapevine Vitis Vinefera L. in the Near East / Daniel Zohary -- 3. The Origin and Domestication of the Vinifera Grape / Harold P. Olmo -- 4. The Archaeological Evidence for Winemaking, Distribution, and Consumption at Proto-Historic Godin Tepe, Iran / Virginia R. Badler -- 5. The Analytical and Archaeological Challenge of Detecting Ancient Wine: Two Case Studies from the Ancient Near East / Patrick E. McGovern and Rudolph H. Michel -- 6. An Enologist's Commentary on Ancient Wines / Vernon L. Singleton -- 7. The Analysis of Wine and Other Organics Inside Amphoras of the Roman Period / Francoise Formenti and J. M. Duthel -- 8. Fourth Millennium B.C. Trade in Greater Mesopotamia: Did It Include Wine? / Guillermo Algaze -- 9. Wine and the Vine in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Cuneiform Evidence / Marvin A. Powell -- 10. Searching for Wine in the Archaeological Record of Ancient Mesopotamia of the Third and Second Millennia B.C. / Richard L. Zettler and Naomi F. Miller -- 11. Viniculture and Ancient Anatolia / Ronald L. Gorny -- 12. The Imagery of the Wine Bowl: Wine in Assyria in the Early First Millennium B.C. / David Stronach -- 13. The Earliest History of Wine and Its Importance in Ancient Egypt / T. G. H. James -- 14. Egyptian Wine Production During the New Kingdom / Leonard H. Lesko -- 15. "Canaanite Jars" and the Late Bronze Age Aegeo-Levantine Wine Trade / Albert Leonard, Jr. -- 16. Palaeoethnobotanical Finds of Vitis from Greece / Jane M. Renfrew -- 17. Wine and Viticulture in the Linear A and B Texts of the Bronze Age Aegean / Ruth Palmer -- 18. Empty Cups and Empty Jugs: The Social Role of Wine in Minoan and Mycenaean Societies / James C. Wright -- 19. The Beginnings of Grape Cultivation and Wine Production in Phoenician/Punic North Africa / Joseph A. Greene -- 20. Wine Amphoras in Ancient Greek Trade / Carolyn G. Koehler.