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The wheeled cauldrons and the wine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gad Rausing
Gad Rausing*
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Case Postale 22, 1820 Territet, Switzerland
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Grapes appear rather early in temperate Europe: even in the cool north of Sweden, their pips occur in the Neolithic. With grapes go wine, and with wine go the artefacts of wine, amongst them the cauldron on wheels — a grand and an odd artefact type of Bronze Age Europe.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 274 , December 1997, pp. 994 - 999
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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