Bilan des recherches archéologiques sur la ville portuaire de Lattara (Lattes, Hérault)

Py, Michel; García, Dominique

doi:10.3406/galia.1993.2934

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“…The coastal site of Lattara, near the modern town of Lattes south of Montpellier, is key to understanding the transference of the wine culture to Mediterranean France (8). Merchant quarters for the storage, preparation, and transport of imported and exported goods were newly constructed inside a walled settlement ca.…”

Section: Archaeological Samples Chosen For Analysismentioning

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Beginning of viniculture in France

McGovern

Luley

Rovira

et al. 2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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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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Beginning of viniculture in France

McGovern

Luley

Rovira

et al. 2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…In the South of France, a large part of the archaeological material came from Lattes, and was dated from the Iron Age to the Gallo-Roman period (around 400 B.C. to 100 A.C.; Py and Garcia, 1993). In this site, the dental remains of mice were associated with different well-dated structures (mainly sinks 234, 348 and 129011 - Buxó et al, 2005-and place n1123 -Buxó et al, 2003 throughout the whole sequence.…”

Section: Ancient Materialsmentioning

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A spatio-temporal decrease in molar size in the western European house mouse

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a b s t r a c tWe investigate the existence and persistence of a temporal and a spatial gradient in molar size of the house mouse, Mus musculus domesticus, from France, Europe and northern Africa. Specimens include both modern samples extending from the beginning of last century to extant populations as well as archeological material. Several patterns in size variation were evidenced: i) there is a size gradient in molar teeth decreasing from North to South in modern mice, ii) a similar North-South gradient is present in archeological material indicating that it has existed at least since Gallo-Roman times, and iii) there is a decrease in size between the Gallo-Roman samples and modern ones. The geographical gradient was not gradual, but was characterized by a step cline on both sides of the 45 th parallel, that is between the Mediterranean zone and the western European Continent. Within each of these compartments, no latitudinal variation from North to South was observed. The decrease in size of the house mouse since the Gallo-Roman period, or likely since the end of the Middle-Ages, could be due to landscape clearance and expansion of cereal-like cultivations. The commensal way of life, associated with an increase in population density, may have also had an effect.

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“…Close to cultivated areas, about 10 km north of the site, areas of scrubland contain a complete range of low-lying ligneous vegetation: from Quercus coccifera and Brachypodium ramosum to very low-lying areas of woodland containing Quercus pubescens, Quercus ilex and Pistacia terebinth us. Work at Lattes over the last 20 years has determined the duration of the occupation, and outlined a stratigraphy from the second half of the 6th century BC to the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd centuries AD (Arnal et a]. 1974;Py & Garcia 1994).…”

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“…The present study of seeds and fruit uses samples from various excavations of 1986-91, relating to the period from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD (Py & Garcia 1994), with two objectives: to investigate the settlement's agriculture and plant resources; and to identify the non-cultivated plant environment familiar to the inhabitants of ancient Lattara. Specific hypotheses are needed to account for the viticulture of the period.…”

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confidence: 99%