WATER INTO WINE: TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY IN LATE ANTIQUITY.
Wine production in the late antique Levant depended on the existence of large internal and overseas markets. Estate owners and farmers reacted to the fl ourishing late antique wine market by investing heavily in the land. This input included the widespread adoption of, hitherto under-utilised, more...
| Publicado en: | Late Antique Archaeology Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 65 - 93 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2008
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| Sumario: | Wine production in the late antique Levant depended on the existence of large internal and overseas markets. Estate owners and farmers reacted to the fl ourishing late antique wine market by investing heavily in the land. This input included the widespread adoption of, hitherto under-utilised, more effi cient wine presses. Accompanying the use of the screw press in wine production was the simultaneous spread of the saqiya. This technology required signifi cant capital outlay and a deep pool of technically skilled craftsmen. The phenomenon thus provides a glimpse of the pace of technological development at least partly driven by market conditions and the spread of technology in the countryside. |
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