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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 | |