Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Philadelphia : Gordon and Breach Publishers, ©1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McGovern, Patrick E.
• Fleming, Stuart James.
• Katz, Solomon H., 1939-

Description

xxiii, 409 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Food and nutrition in history and anthropology, 0275-5769 ; v. 11

Uniform Title

Food and nutrition in history and anthropology ; v. 11.

Subject

• Wine and wine making > History
• Viticulture > History
• Wine > history
• Viticulture
• Wine and wine making
• Wijn
• Oudheid
• VINIFICACION > MEDIO ORIENTE > HISTORIA > CONGRESOS
• VINIFICACION > PAISES MEDITERRANEOS > HISTORIA > CONGRESOS

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ancient sayings about wine / Louis E. Grivetti -- Grapes and wine: hypotheses and scientific evidence. Wine: the food with two faces / Louis E. Grivetti -- Domestication of the grapevine Vitis Vinifera L. in the Near East / Daniel Zohary -- Origin and domestication of the Vinifera grape / Harold P. Olmo -- Archaeological evidence for winemaking, distribution, and consumption at proto-historic Godin Tepe, Iran / Virginia R. Badler -- Analytical and archaeological challenge of detecting ancient wine: two case studies from the ancient Near East / Patrick E. McGovern, Rudolph H. Michel -- Enologist's commentary on ancient wines / Vernon L. Singleton -- Analysis of wine and other organics inside amphoras of the Roman period / Françoise Formenti, J.M. Duthel.
• History and archaeology of wine: the Near East and Egypt. Fourth millennium B.C. trade in greater Mesopotamia: did it include wine? / Guillermo Algaze -- Wine and the vine in ancient Mesopotamia: the cuneiform evidence / Marvin A. Powell -- Searching for wine in the archaeological record of ancient Mesopotamia of the third and second millennia B.C. / Richard L. Zettler, Naomi F. Miller -- Viniculture and ancient Anatolia / Ronald L. Gorny -- Imagery of the wine bowl: wine in Assyria in the early first millennium B.C. / David Stronach -- Earliest history of wine and its importance in ancient Egypt / T.G.H. James -- Egyptian wine production during the New Kingdom / Leonard H. Lesko.
• History and archaeology of wine: the Mediterranean. "Canaanite jars" and the Late Bronze Age Aegeo-Levantine wine trade / Albert Leonard Jr. -- Palaeoethnobotanical finds of Vitis from Greece / Jane M. Renfrew -- Wine and viticulture in the Linear A and B texts of the Bronze Age Aegean / Ruth Palmer -- Empty cups and empty jugs: the social role of wine in Minoan and Mycenaean societies / James C. Wright -- Beginnings of grape cultivation and wine production in Phoenician/Punic North Africa / Joseph A. Greene -- Wine amphoras in ancient Greek trade / Carolyn g. Koehler.

ISBN

• 2881245773
• 9782881245770

OCLC

• ocm34304539
• 34304539
• SCSB-9255844

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library