Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.
Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.
Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003.
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N641.20956/1
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English
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xvi, 365 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Stone Age Wine -- 2. The Noah Hypothesis -- 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine -- 4. Neolithic Wine! -- 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs -- 6. Wine of Egypt's Golden Age -- 7. Wine of the World's First Cities -- 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East --...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003.
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New Jersey
Date Published
c2003.
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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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Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and index.
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c2003.
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N641.20956/1
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74VvxE0gQp0d
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0691070806 (acid-free paper)
9780691070803 (acid-free paper)
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641.20956
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991016790659702626
