COMM 297FA Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Caspian Sea, Wine Press, Huma Bird
28 Sep 2018
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Cider and chicha episode will be up this weekend. Probably growing in middle eastern area/black and caspian sea. Shawmut myth - if not pharaoh+ you spirit would be weighed, bad - thrown into vat that shawmut would turn into dead elites to drink. Status drinking versus what you like drinking. Good vs bad wines identifiable in ancient mesopotamia. Mentions of things in hair of the dog. Wine, like mead, does not need humans. Grapes will rot and get crushed, wild yeast. Cave in israel, 13,000 years, residue that might be beer. Oldest standard archaeological record of humans making alcohol. Some grape/hawthorn fruit - not necessarily wine. Some honey and rices in it too. Known grape growers, turning it to wine. Difference between the grapes here and europe. Here ones made a bit better jelly. King in ancient iran and he summons archers bc huma bird in air and serpent is strangling it, king doesn"t know what to do.
