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Beginning of Viniculture in France

Author
McGovern, Patrick E.
Published
June 3, 2013.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Mirzoian, Armen, Luley, Benjamin P., Davidson, Theodore, Rovira, Nuria, Davidson, Theodore, Smith, Karen E., Hall, Gretchen R., and Callahan, Michael P.
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Summary
Chemical analyses of ancient organic compounds absorbed into the pottery fabrics of imported Etruscan amphoras (ca. 500-475 B.C.) and into a limestone pressing platform (ca. 425-400 B.C.) at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest biomolecular archaeological evidence for grape wine and viniculture from this country, which is crucial to the later history of wine in Europe and the rest of the world. The data support the hypothesis that export of wine by ship from Etruria in central Italy to southern Mediterranean France fueled an ever-growing market and interest in wine there, which, in turn, as evidenced by the winepress, led to transplantation of the Eurasian grapevine and the beginning of a Celtic industry in France. Herbal and pine resin additives to the Etruscan wine point to the medicinal role of wine in antiquity, as well as a means of preserving it during marine transport.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20140016914.
GSFC-E-DAA-TN9522.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; Volume 110; No. 25; 10147-10152.
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