Why not Armenia? This is roughly Colchis, home of the Golden Fleece, and it's contemporous to Sumer. The age and location of the find suggests to me this was a proto-Phrygian or Sumerian site, but I'll leave it to to pros to sort out. Bear > ?Armenia? > > http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/01/12/oldest.winery/index.html?hpt=Sbin > > Daniel