CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Foreword xv
5. Preface xix
6. CHAPTER 1. Stone Age Wine 1
7. CHAPTER 2. The Noah Hypothesis 16
8. CHAPTER 3. The Archaeological and Chemical Hunt for the Earliest Wine 40
9. CHAPTER 4. Neolithic Wine! 64
10. CHAPTER 5. Wine of the Earliest Pharaohs 85
11. CHAPTER 6. Wine of Egypt’s Golden Age 107
12. CHAPTER 7. Wine of the World’s First Cities 148
13. CHAPTER 8. Wine and the Great Empires of the Ancient Near East 167
14. CHAPTER 9. The Holy Land’s Bounty 210
15. CHAPTER 10. Lands of Dionysos: Greece and Western Anatolia 239
16. CHAPTER 11. A Beverage for King Midas and at the Limits of the Civilized World 279
17. CHAPTER 12. Molecular Archaeology, Wine, and a View to the Future 299
18. Selected Bibliography 317
19. Illustration Credits and Object Dimensions 329
20. Index 335