Ancient wine : the search for the origins of viniculture / Patrick E. McGovern.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2003], ©2003.

xvi, 365 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Stone age wine -- The Noah hypothesis -- The archaeological and chemical hunt for the earliest wine -- Neolithic wine! -- Wine of the earliest pharaohs -- Wine of Egypt's golden age -- Wine of the world's first cities -- Wine and the great empires of the ancient Near East -- The Holy Land's bounty -- Lands of Dionysos : Greece and western Anatolia -- A beverage for King Midas and at the limits of the civilized world -- Molecular archaeology, wine, and a view to the future.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-328) and index.