Re: France's earliest winery found

On Jul 18, 2:42 pm, David Johnson <trolleyfan_nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:1184780992.366540.101030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

How does 2 million gallons sound like, a local trade?

Well, it _does_ depend on how they're defining "local" here. At _current_
French use*, that would be enough for about 150,000 drinkers.

David

* Found here:

http://tinyurl.com/yvnhh

and yes I know, extrapolating 5th century BC usage from 21st century AD
usage is nudging the figures well towards WAG territory - you work with
what you got...

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I have seen population "estimates" for Gaul at 3-6 million when Julius
Caesar conqured. Assuming an elite of between 3 and 10 percent, that
gives "drinking population" of between 90,000 and 180,000. Not far off
your number. Remember not everybody got to sit at the banquet and eat
and drink. There is actually a new field in archaeology about the
study of these banquets. From at least Bronze Age Mycenae and on,
supposed to show that current banquets are part of our social fabric
and not one of Thorstein Veblen's idiosychracies.


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