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100 1 _aMcGovern, Patrick E.,
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245 1 0 _aAncient wine :
_bthe search for the origins of viniculture /
_cPatrick E. McGovern.
264 1 _aPrinceton :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2003]
264 4 _c©2003
300 _axvi, 365 pages :
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-328) and index.
505 0 0 _g1.
_tStone Age Wine --
_g2.
_tThe Noah Hypothesis --
_g3.
_tThe Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine --
_g4.
_tNeolithic Wine! --
_g5.
_tWine of the Earliest Pharaohs --
_g6.
_tWine of Egypt's Golden Age --
_g7.
_tWine of the World's First Cities --
_g8.
_tWine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East --
_g9.
_tThe Holy Land's Bounty --
_g10.
_tLands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia --
_g11.
_tA Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World --
_g12.
_tMolecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future.
520 1 _a"Patrick McGovern takes us on a personal odyssey back to the beginnings of this consequential beverage when early hominids probably enjoyed a wild grape wine. We follow the course of human ingenuity in domesticating the Eurasian vine and learning how to make and preserve wine some 7,000 years ago. Early winemakers must have marveled at the seemingly miraculous process of fermentation. From success to success, viniculture stretched out its tentacles and entwined itself with one culture after another (whether Egyptian, Iranian, Israelite, or Greek) and laid the foundation for civilization itself. As medicine, social lubricant, mind-altering substance, and highly valued commodity, wine became the focus of religious cults, pharmacopoeias, cuisines, economies, and society. As an evocative symbol of blood, it was used in temple ceremonies and occupies the heart of the Eucharist. Kings celebrated their victories with wine and made certain that they had plenty for the afterlife. (Among the colorful examples in the book is McGovern's famous chemical reconstruction of the funerary feast - and mixed beverage - of "King Midas.") Some people truly became "wine cultures.""--BOOK JACKET.
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