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UCLA Scholars Discover Earliest-Known Winery

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UCLA Scholars Discover Earliest-Known Winery

The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence-France Presse, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, BBC News, Britain's Telegraph, AOL News, Gawker, and Neatorama report today, and National Geographic reported Monday, that scholars from UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology and colleagues excavating a cave complex in southern Armenia have unearthed a 6,100-year-old wine-making facility, complete with a fermentation vat, a wine press, storage jars, drinking vessels, and remnants of grape seeds and vines. Gregory Areshian, assistant director of the Cotsen Institute and co-director of the excavation, is quoted in the coverage.

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