{"id":23317,"date":"2020-02-22T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousavor-avedis.org\/?p=23317"},"modified":"2020-02-22T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T11:04:53","slug":"people-of-ar-wine-making-facility-6100-years-old-in-armenia-wine-making-facility-6100-years-old-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousavor-avedis.org\/?p=23317","title":{"rendered":"People Of Ar \u2013 Wine-Making Facility \u2013 6,100 years old in-armenia – Wine-Making Facility \u2013 6,100 years old in-armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"

People Of Ar \u2013 Wine-Making Facility \u2013 6,100 years old in-armenia – Wine-Making Facility \u2013 6,100 years old in-armenia<\/p>\n

Art-A-Tsolum \u2013 PREVIOUS ARTICLE<\/a>:<\/p>\n

DECEMBER 17, 2014 – Archaeology:<\/p>\n

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Wine-Making Facility \u2013 6,100 years old<\/p>\n

In a cave in southern Armenia a team of international archaeologists have unearthed a wine press for stomping grapes. Fermentation and storage vessels, drinking cups, and withered grape vines, skins, and seeds have also been discovered at the site. The installation suggests the Copper Age vintners pressed their wine the old-fashioned way, using their feet. Juice from the trampled grapes drained into the vat, where it was left to ferment.<\/p>\n

The wine was then stored in jars\u2014the cool, dry conditions of the cave would have made a perfect wine cellar. Ancient-wine expert Patrick E.<\/p>\n

McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, called the discovery \u201cimportant and unique, because it indicates large-scale wine production, which would imply, I think, that the grape had already been domesticated.\u201d The apparent discovery that winemaking using domesticated grapevines emerged in what\u2019s now Armenia appears to dovetail with previous DNA studies of cultivated grape varieties, McGovern said. Armenian Highlands are considered the birthplace of viticulture.<\/p>\n

It is believed the wine has been used for religious or ritualistic purposes. The discovery is important, the study team says, because winemaking is seen as a significant social and technological innovation among prehistoric societies. Vine growing, for instance, heralded the emergence of new, sophisticated forms of agriculture.<\/p>\n

They had to learn and understand the cycles of growth of the plant. They had to understand how much water was needed, how to prevent fungi from damaging the harvest, and how to deal with flies that live on the grapes. Chemical analysis of the residue has dated the winery to 4,100 BCE. \u201cThis is the earliest, most reliable evidence of wine production,\u201d said archaeologist Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).<\/p>\n

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Source: 1) http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/packages\/pdf\/science\/YJASC_2685.pdf 2) http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2011\/01\/110111-oldest-wine-press-making-winery-armenia-science-ucla<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

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