ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|4 pages
Ancient Sayings About Wine
part II|81 pages
Grapes and Wine Hypotheses and Scientific Evidence
chapter Chapter 7|7 pages
The Analysis of Wine and Other Organics Inside Amphoras of the Roman Period
part III|153 pages
The History and Archaeology of Wine The Near East and Egypt
chapter Chapter 12|23 pages
The Imagery of the Wine Bowl: Wine in Assyria in the Early First Millennium B.C
part IV|110 pages
The History and Archaeology of Wine The Mediterranean