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Abstract:
Although genomics confirm that the domestication of the grapevine occurred in south-west Asia, the process of domestication and westward diffusion remains partly obscure, particularly in terms of chronology. By identifying remains in well-dated archaeological sites, archaeobotany enables us to retrace the spatio-temporal trajectories of vine use, in interaction with socio-environmental dynamics. Morphometric analysis of the seeds provides a tool for distinguishing wild from domestic grapevines and studying their morphological evolution. The best preservation conditions in waterlogged contexts, provide access to palaeogenomes, opening the way to a reconstruction of the evolutionary history of grapevine. Morphometrics and palaeogenomics reveal the spread of vines of Eastern origin across the Mediterranean. However, this talk shows how vine types similar to traditional Western European wine grape varieties have also been detected since the arrival of domestic vines in the north-western Mediterranean, during the Iron Age, and how morphologically wild vines remained cultivated everywhere for centuries.
Keywords: archaeobotany, viticulture, domestication, Iron Age, Roman period, GMM, palaeogenomics
About Dr Bouby:
Dr Bouby completed his PhD in Archaeology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Toulouse, France) in 2010 and his Accreditation to Supervise Research (French HDR) in Biology at the University of Montpellier in 2020. He is an archaeobotanist at CNRS (Research Engineer), Institute of Evolution Sciences (ISEM), Montpellier University. His research focuses on the history of agriculture and the exploitation of plant resources in the North-Western Mediterranean, since the last hunter-gatherers, based on the study of archaeological macroremains. He has been active in several national and international research programmes and is the Principal Investigator of the ANR program VINICULTURE (National Agency of Research) aiming to explore the diversity of grapes and wines in France since the Neolithic.
Links of interest:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Laurent-Bouby
https://isem-evolution.fr/en/membre/bouby/ ·
