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Grape-pressings from northern Greece: the earliest wine in the Aegean?

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ANTIQUITY
Volume 81, Issue 311, Pages 54-61

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CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094837

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Aegean; Macedonia; Greece; wine; grapes; viticulture

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Houses burnt down at the Neolithic site of Dikili Tash in northern Greece preserved the remains of wild grapes and figs. The charred shapes showed that there was a pile of grape pips with skins clear evidence for the extraction of juice. The authors argue that the juice was probably used to make wine-towards the end of the fifth millennium BC the earliest so far from the Aegean. The occupants of the houses also had two-handled cups, providing another clue to consumption of a special kind.

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