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Archaeological
Chemistry and Ancient Wine
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Archaeological Chemistry or Molecular Archaeology is a
rapidly developing interdisciplinary field, which is yielding whole new
chapters concerning our human ancestry and genetic development,
cuisine, medical practice and other crafts over the past 2 million
years.
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Ancient Wine
Wine
provides the perfect metaphor and paradigm for ancient
organic residue studies. The methods and approaches that have
been developed for its identification are applicable to other
organics--dyes, tree resins, drugs, textiles, etc.--found the world
over and best preserved in desert, bog, or underwater.
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Combined with Neutron Activation Analysis (which determines
the origin of pottery vessels), ancient trade routes can be
reconstructed. DNA analysis enables the earliest domestication of
a given plant or animal to be located in time and space.
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Archaeochemistry Bibliography
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The
Origins and Ancient History of Wine, Luxembourg: Gordon and Breach, 1995,
2000: "The most
complete, detailed, and penetrating record of the genesis of
civilization's most consequential libation ever assembled." H.J.
de Blij
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mcgovern@sas.upenn.edu
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Patrick E. McGovern
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University
of Pennsylvania Museum
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Philadelphia,
PA 19104
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Phone:
215-898-1164
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Fax:
215-898-0657
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