tortoise: on Nevali Çori vessel
shells in burials
“To the Pupils of the Transcendental Art” (Wang Ji)
trade routes: Africa
Canaanite and Phoenician traders
High Road or Great Khorasan Road
Nile shipping. See also cultural diffusion; Mediterranean shipping and trade; Silk Road
Transcaucasia. See also Georgia
Transjordanian Plateau sites
Trappists
tree saps. See also resinated beverages; resins; specific types
tree shrew, Malaysian
Trifolium. See clover
Tripsacum. See teosinte
triterpenoids
birch resins
Triticum dicoccum. See also emmer wheat
Triticum monococcum ssp. boeoticum. See also einkorn wheat
Triticum monococcum ssp. monococcum. See also wheat
Trotzig, Gustaf
trumpets
Tsonga people
tubers: Africa
New World. See also manioc; potatoes
Tunisia. See also Carthage
Turbina
turkey
Turkey. See Anatolia
Turkish red pine honey
Turkmenistan
Margiana sites. See also Central Asia
Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun’s Tipple
Tyre
Tyrian purple
Ubar
Uganda: banana phytoliths
Iteso people
Ugarit
Ukraine: horse domestication
Indo-European roots in
Mezin mammoth-bone house
Uluá Valley
Uluburun shipwreck
‘Umar b. Abī Rabī‘a
Um Direiwa
Underhill, Anne
U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF)
Ur
Urnfield culture
Uruk
Ürümchi mummies
Vaccinium oxycoccus. See cranberries
Vaccinium vitis-idaea. See cowberries
Valle de Ambrona
vanilla
The Varieties of Religious Experience (James)
Varro
Vashti
Vega, Garcilaso de la
Venus
Venus figures
Çatal Höyük goddess
vermouth
Verucchio
vetch
Via Maris
Vikings, Viking beverages
vinegar
Vinland
Vin Santo
vinyl ethanol, extraterrestrial
viticulture and (grape) winemaking: additions to stimulate fermentation
Anatolia
Assyrian
Carthage
Caucasus
China
Crete
Egypt
Godin Tepe winemaking tools
grape domestication
Greece
Italy
Japan
Levant (Canaanite and Phoenician)
Mediterranean shipping of live vines
modern Lebanon
modern sub-Saharan Africa
northern Europe
Persia and Central Asia
Spain
spread of
viticultural techniques
winemaking techniques
Zagros Mountains. See also Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris; wine culture
Vitis. See grapes individual species
Vitis amurensis
Vitis Apiana
Vitis quinquangularis
Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris (Eurasian grape)
in Central Asia
domestication and earliest viticulture
in Egypt
in Europe
in Levant
in Mesopotamia. See also grape wine; viticulture and winemaking
Vix
Voigt, Mary
Vouillamoz, José
vultures
Wadi Kubbaniya
Wagy festival
walnut, white
Wang, Changsui
Wang, Chen-shan “Ellen”
Wang, Kai
Wang Ji
Wari winemaking
Warren, Peter
wasps
water lily
Ways of Horus
weapons
as grave goods
Wendorf, Fred
Wernicke’s area
Western Hallstatt, Mediterranean wine trade in
wheat
in Africa
domestication
in dynastic Egypt
in Hierakonpolis vat residues
at Mehrgarh
at northern European sites
wild
wheat beers
modern bouza
white clover
White Horse Stone
whitethorn
whooping crane
Wiens, Frank
Wilford, John Noble
William Grant and Sons
Willis, Justin
willow
wine: in Arabic and Persian poetry
author’s use of term
barley wine
Chinese, from Shang and Zhou tombs
Grand Ribaud shipwreck
in Jiahu grog
maize wine
as medium for Zoroastrian haoma
palm wine
preservation and sealing techniques
rice wine
in Sumerian beer recipe
Wari Peruvian pepper tree wine
word for, in Indo-European languages. See also fruit wines; grape wine; rice beverages; wine culture; wine trade
wine additives. See additives; herbs; medicinal beverages; mind-altering beverages; mixed beverages; resinated beverages
wine corks
wine culture: ancient Persia
Canaanite/Phoenician
diffusion of
grape wine as prestige beverage
modern, spread of
wine’s social significance
wine grape. See Vitis vinifera
winemaking. See viticulture and winemaking
wine trade: ancient Mediterranean
Mediterranean shipwrecks
in northern Europe
between Zagros Mountains and lowland Mesopotamia. See also Mediterranean shipping and trade
women, as fermented-beverage preparers
Wong-Kingsley, Farina
wood: ancient Mediterranean wood trade
Natufian use of
wooden barrels
wormwood. See also Artemisia
writing and texts: Chinese
Egyptian hieroglyphs
“grape,” “vineyard,” and “wine” in early Greek scripts
Hittite texts
inscriptions on wine vessels
Phoenician alphabet
Sumerian. See also poetry; specific titles and authors
Xenophon
Xerxes
Xhosa people
Xi’an
royal burials at
Xinjiang viticulture
Xiongnu people
Yabrud
yam
yarrow
Yasna
yeast inoculation methods: Africa
Americas
China
Near East
yeasts
for Chateau Jiahu recreation
insects as transporters
New World chicha, See also Saccharomyces entries
Yellow Emperor
yerba-maté
Yi li (Book of Conduct)
Yin. See Anyang
yogurt
yopo tree
you jars
Ystad
yuca. See also manioc
yucca
Yuchanyan Cave
Yuezhi people
Zagros Mountains
Hajji Firuz Tepe
Neanderthal burials in
&nb
sp; viticulture in. See also Godin Tepe
Zea. See maize
Zerabar Lake
Zeus
Zhang, Juzhong
Zhang, Zhiqing
Zhang Qian
Zhao, Zhijun “Jimmy”
Zhou dynasty China
attitudes about intoxication
Zhuangzhi (Book of Master Zhuang)
Zifferero, Andrea
Zimbabwe: Matopo Hills rock paintings
Ziziphus. See also jujube
Zoroastrianism
haoma
Margiana fire temples
Zosimus
Zulu peoples
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