Grape-pressings from northern Greece: The earliest wine in the Aegean?

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 311, 2007, Pages 54-61

  Valamoti, S M ^a   Mangafa, M ^c   Koukouli Chrysanthaki, Ch ^b   Malamidou, D ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Archaeological Museum of Kavala   (Greece)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Aegean; Grapes; Greece; Macedonia; Viticulture; Wine

Indexed keywords

FRUIT; NEOLITHIC; VITICULTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

PIPS; VITACEAE;

EID: 33947684301     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00094837     Document Type: Article

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