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"First archeologists discovered the world&amp;#039;s oldest soup and now it seems they have uncovered the world&amp;#039;s oldest winery. And we&amp;#039;re talking old: 4000 B.C., over 6,000 years ago during what is referred to as the Chalcolithic Period, the Copper Age. The discovery occurred at the very same cave in Armenia where recently archeologists stumbled across the oldest known leather shoe, a moccasin to be precise, thought to be a woman&amp;#039;s size 7. (Sounds about right.) The winemaking facility seems to have been a full operation and as reported in the New York Times, scientists excavated, &amp;quot;a vat for fermenting, a press, storage jars, a clay bowl and a drinking cup made from an animal horn.&amp;quot; In addition the article states, &amp;quot;Grape seeds, dried pressed grapes, stems, shriveled grapevines, and residue were also found.&amp;quot; The key to knowing it was wine and not another libation was those cups were those &amp;quot;residues.&amp;quot; The chemical evidence was analyzed and identified as syringic acid from malvidin: malvidin is responsible for red wine&amp;#039;s rosy hue. According to Gregory Areshian, co-director of the excavation and assistant director of the University of California Los Angeles&amp;#039;s Costen Institute of Archeology, the evidence points to juice from a grape and definitely not from pomegranate. What&amp;#039;s next in line for culinary archeologists to discover? Your guess is as good as ours. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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