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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Stone Age Wine | |
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| Sifting Fact from Legend | |
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| Man Meets Grape: The Paleolithic Hypothesis | |
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| Whence the Domesticated Eurasian Grapevine? | |
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| When and Where Was Wine First Made? | |
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| The Noah Hypothesis | |
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| Genetics and Gilgamesh | |
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| Transcaucasia: The Homeland of Viniculture? | |
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| Exploring Georgia and Armenia | |
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| Ancient DNA | |
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| Casting a Wider Net in Anatolia | |
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| The Indo-European Homeland | |
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| "Noah's Flood" | |
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| Farther Afield | |
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| The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine | |
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| Godin Tepe | |
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| Molecular Archaeology Comes of Age | |
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| Identifying the Godin Tepe Jar Residues by Infrared Spectrometry | |
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| Archaeological Inference | |
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| From Grape Juice to Wine to Vinegar | |
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| Winemaking at the Dawn of Civilization | |
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| The First Wine Rack? | |
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| A Symposium in the True Sense of the Word | |
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| Neolithic Wine! | |
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| A Momentous Innovation | |
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| Liquid Chromatography: Another Tool of Molecular Archaeology | |
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| Ancient Retsina: A Beverage and a Medicine | |
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| A Media Barrage | |
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| Wild or Domesticated Grapes? | |
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| More Neolithic Wine Jars from Transcaucasia | |
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| Creating a Ferment in Neolithic Turkey: A Hypothesis to Be Tested | |
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| Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs | |
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| A Royal Industry Par Excellence | |
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| An Amazing Discovery from a Dynasty 0 Royal Tomb | |
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| Ancient Yeast DNA Discovered | |
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| Wine of Egypt's Golden Age | |
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| The Hyksos: A Continuing Taste for Levantine Wines | |
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| Festival Wine at the Height of the New Kingdom | |
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| Wine as the Ultimate Religious Expression | |
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| Wines of the Heretic King, Akhenaten, and of Tutankhamun | |
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| The Vineyard of Egypt under the Ramessides | |
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| Wine of the World's First Cities | |
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| A Beer-Drinking Culture Only? | |
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| Banqueting the Mesopotamian Way | |
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| Wine, Too, Was Drunk in the Lowland Cities | |
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| Transplanting the Grapevine to Shiraz | |
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| Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East | |
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| Wine Down the Tigris and Euphrates | |
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| Wines of Anatolia and the Lost Hittite Empire | |
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| Assyrian Expansionism: Cupbearers, Cauldrons, and Drinking Horns | |
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| The Fine Wines of Aram and Phoenicia | |
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| Eastward to Persia and China | |
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| The Holy Land's Bounty | |
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| Winepresses in the Hills, and Towers and Vineyards in the Wadi Floors | |
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| The Success of the Experiment | |
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| Serving the Needs of a Cosmopolitan Society | |
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| Wine for the Kings and the Masses | |
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| Dark Reds and Powerful Browns | |
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| Wine: A Heritage of the Judeo-Christian Tradition | |
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| Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia | |
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| Drinking the God | |
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| A Minoan Connection? The Earliest Greek Retsina | |
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| Wine Mellowed with Oak | |
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| "Greek Grog": A Revolution in Beverage Making | |
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| Wine and "Greek Grog" during the Heroic Age | |
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| A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World | |
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| King Midas and "Phrygian Grog" | |
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| Re-creating an Ancient Anatolian Beverage and Feast | |
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| To the Hyperborean Regions of the North: "European Grog" | |
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| Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future | |
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| Where It All Began | |
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| Consumed by Wine | |
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| Why Alcohol and Why Wine? | |
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| The Lowly Yeast to the Forefront | |
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| Mixing Things Up | |
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| Wine, the Perfect Metaphor | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Illustration Credits and Object Dimensions | |
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| Index | |