{"id":4201,"date":"2011-01-11T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2011-01-11T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T19:54:36","slug":"national-geographic-earliest-winery-found-in-armenian-cave%e2%80%9cas-if-making-the-oldest-known-leather-shoe-wasnt-enough-a-prehistoric-people-in-whats-now-armenia-also-built-the-worlds-olde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic: Earliest winery found in Armenian Cave:\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093As if making the oldest known leather shoe wasn’t enough, a prehistoric people in what’s now Armenia also built the world’s oldest known winery,\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d a new study by National Geographic says."},"content":{"rendered":"
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National Geographic story titled \u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u056a\u0093Earliest Known Winery Found in Armenian Cave\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0539\u009d says that undertaken at a burial site, Armenian winemaking may have been dedicated to the dead\u0569\u00a7\u0549\u0082-\u0549\u0080\u009dand it likely required the removal of any fancy footwear.<\/p>\n

Near the village of Areni, in the same cave where a stunningly preserved, 5,500-year-old leather moccasin was recently found, archaeologists have unearthed a wine press for stomping grapes, fermentation and storage vessels, drinking cups, and withered grape vines, skins, and seeds, the study says.<\/p>\n

“This is the earliest, most reliable evidence of wine production,” said archaeologist Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).<\/p>\n

“For the first time, we have a complete archaeological picture of wine production dating back 6,100 years,” he said.
\nThe prehistoric winemaking equipment was first detected in 2007, when excavations co-directed by Areshian and Armenian archaeologist Boris Gasparyan began at the Areni-1 cave complex.<\/p>\n

In September 2010 archaeologists completed excavations of a large, 2-foot-deep (60-centimeter-deep) vat buried next to a shallow, 3.5-foot-long (1-meter-long) basin made of hard-packed clay with elevated edges.
\nThe installation suggests the Copper Age vintners pressed their wine the old-fashioned way, using their feet, Areshian said.
\nJuice from the trampled grapes drained into the vat, where it was left to ferment, he explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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