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

S.M. Valamoti, M. Mangafa, Ch. Koukouli-Chrysanthaki, Dimitra Malamidou

• Houses burnt down at the Neolithic site of Dikili Tash in northern Greece preserved the remains of wild grapes and figs. The charred shapes showed that there was a pile of grape pips with skins - clear evidence for the extraction of juice. The authors argue that the juice was probably used to make wine - towards the end of the fifth millennium BC the earliest so far from the Aegean. The occupants of the houses also had two-handled cups, providing another clue to consumption of a special kind.