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SUMMARY:Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment - Victoria N
 ewson (University of Sheffield)
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CONTACT:Laura Courto
DESCRIPTION:Armenia has a long and significant history of grape cultivatio
 n and wine production\, such that 8th\ncentury BCE Urartian kings referred
  to it as “the land of vineyards”. Likewise\, Assyrian armies\nmarvell
 ed at the vast quantities of wine and chose to take wine as tribute rather
  than precious\nmetals. The most notable ‘stains’ that grapes and wine
  made on ancient economies and societies\noccurred in three distinct perio
 ds: 1) the Chalcolithic/Early Bronze Age\, specifically at the site of\nAr
 eni-1\; 2) the Iron Age Urartian wine economy and 3) the Medieval Period (
 Christian wineries).\nHowever\, the archaeological evidence of wine produc
 tion from the Urartians period (9th-6th\ncenturies BCE) has mainly been te
 xtual (primarily Urartians and Assyrians) and ceramic based (i.e.\nkarases
 )\, with minimal evidence of the technology of grape processing and winema
 king (i.e.\narchaeobotanical data in association with specific wine produc
 tion equipment). To help fill this gap\nin the archaeological record\, the
  (minimal) chronology of wine production equipment in Armenia\nwill be exp
 lored\, along with contemporary production equipment from surrounding area
 s (eastern\nMediterranean and the Levant). The ethnography of production e
 quipment will be used as a\nheuristic tool to explore the possible locatio
 ns for wine production and what types of production\nequipment were utiliz
 ed to create such a significant wine industry during the Urartian Period.\
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LOCATION:Online via zoom
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