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Carved bowl or goblet in limestone from Nevali Cori, Ca.8000 B.C., height 13.5 cm. The exuberant dancing scene of two humans and a tortoise on the exterior of this vessel is unique. Photography courtesy of Professor Dr. Harald Hauptmann, Euphrates Archive, Hdidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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If we grant cultic status to the unusual structures at Nevali Cori en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neval%C4%B1_%C3%87ori and Gobekli Tepe, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe we are still left with questions about whether any fermented beverage figured in the rituals. Two smaller artifacts, a stone goblet and bowl, from the Nevali Cori excavations suggest that it did. The carved goblet depicts a male and female dancing with a Euphrates tortoise. A festive occasion and seems to be represented on the bowl, which depicts three leaping figures, open-mouthed as if belting out a song. I had seen similar scenes (minus tortoise) on Neolithic jars from Georgia in the Caucasus, and in those instances, the figures appeared to be dancing beneath a grape arbor. An association with grape wine was strongly applied, as Georgia was one of the ancient world’s great wine cultures. Preliminary chemical results show that Neolithic jars from Shulaveis-Gora and Khramis-Didi Gora once held wine. ~ Page 80

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