| Description |
xxii, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Food and nutrition in history and anthropology, 0275-5769 ; v. 11 |
|
Food and nutrition in history and anthropology ; v. 11. 0275-5769
|
| 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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-402) and index |
| Subject |
Wine and wine making -- History.
|
|
Wine and wine making -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- Congresses.
|
|
Wine and wine making -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses.
|
|
Wine industry -- History.
|
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
|
| Author |
Fleming, Stuart J. (Stuart James), 1943-
|
|
Katz, Solomon H., 1939-
|
|
McGovern, Patrick E.
|
| LC no. |
97190616 |
| ISBN |
9056995529 |
|
9789056995522 |
|
