Areni-1 winery

Coordinates: 39°43′53″N 45°12′13″E / 39.731335°N 45.203626°E / 39.731335; 45.203626
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39°43′53″N 45°12′13″E / 39.731335°N 45.203626°E / 39.731335; 45.203626

Areni-1 cave

The Areni-1 winery is an ancient

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and Ron Pinhasi from University College Cork (Ireland), and were sponsored by the Gfoeller Foundation (USA) and University College Cork. In 2008 the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) also joined the project with Gregory Areshian as co-director of the Areni Project. Since then the excavations have been sponsored by UCLA and the National Geographic Society
as well. The excavations of the winery were completed in 2010.

The winery consists of

wine press, storage jars, pottery sherds, and is believed to be at least a thousand years older than the winery unearthed in the West Bank in 1963, which is the second oldest currently known.[1][2][3]

The Areni-1 shoe was found in the same cave in 2008.

Discovery

Excavations at the Areni-1 site began in 2007 and continued until September 2010. Armenian, American and Irish archaeologists fully unearthed a large, well-preserved 60-centimetre-deep (2-foot) vat, along with a 1-metre-long (3 ft 3 in) basin made of clay and covered with

fungi from destroying the remains.[1]

The team's full findings will be published in future.

Arpa River

Analysis

The results of the biochemical analysis of the residues from the bottom of the wine-press and the storage jars carried out by Hans Barnard and his colleagues at UCLA were published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in January 2011.[6]

Botanical analysis and

ferment until being stored in jars.[3] The capacity of the vat has been estimated to be about 14–15 gallons.[7]

According to Areshian, the discovery of the winery has provided greater insight to the study of

University of Pennsylvania Museum, has likewise emphasized the importance of the discovery, describing it as "important and unique, because it indicates large-scale wine production, which would imply, I think, that the grape had already been domesticated."[3]

The exact identity of the people who lived in the region at the time is not known, although some researchers have postulated that they may have belonged to the Kura-Araxes people and added that they may have been very involved in trade.[1][2]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Maugh II, Thomas H. "Ancient winery found in Armenia." Los Angeles Times. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  2. ^
    Agence France Press
    . January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d Owen, James. "Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave." National Geographic. January 10, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  4. ^ Belluck, Pam. "Cave Drops Hints to Earliest Glass of Red." The New York Times. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  5. ^ Squires, Nick. "World's earliest known winery discovered in Armenia." The Telegraph. January 11, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  6. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.11.012
  7. ^ Sullivan, Meg (January 11, 2011). "Earliest known winery found in Armenian cave". PhysOrg.com. Retrieved November 10, 2023.

Bibliography

  • Areshian G, et al. "The Chalcolithic of the Near East and South-Eastern Europe: Discoveries and New Perspectives from the Cave Complex Areni-1, Armenia," Antiquity 86 (2012):115–130.

External links

The oldest winery and shoe

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