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Phoenicians, not Romans, brought wine to Spain, ancient grape DNA shows | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Wine growing in the Iberian Peninsula began about 3,000 years ago with grapevines from the eastern Mediterranean, according to new research. Ancient DNA links the first cultivated vines in southern Iberia to domesticated grapes from regions around the eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans. An international research team studied 28 ancient grape seeds from archaeological sites […]
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Researchers at the University of Valencia prove that three thousand years ago Phoenicians brought the first vines from the east to Spain. The beginning of a long culture.

Specialists from Spain, Portugal and Lebanon will analyze shrines, places of worship and funeral practices of Antiquity in an appointment that will conclude at the Ecomuseo Molino Mareal ‘El Pintado’ European Days of Archaeology in Huelva, Aroche, Escace

The first known cultivated vines in the Iberian Peninsula came from the eastern Mediterranean around 3,000 years ago, with the Phoenician expansion westward. This is shown by DNA recovered from grape seeds found in archaeological sites in the Iberian Peninsula and Sardinia. The research, published

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