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Wine
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I. Archaeology and Religious Studies

The wild predecessors of cultured vines (Vitis vinifera vinifera) are found especially in the north-eastern Mediterranean region and in the area of the Black Sea. The earliest evidence of collecting grapes, presumably from wild stocks, is 9,000 years old (Çayönü, Tell Aswad and Jericho). The earliest indications of vine cultivation come from the end of the 4th millennium bce in Egypt (Omari, Abydos, Saqqara). Grapes were…

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Staubli, Thomas, Janowski, Bernd, Figal, Günter and Jüngel, Eberhard, “Wine”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_COM_124107>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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