Το αρχαιότερο κρασί στην
Ευρώπη ανακαλύφθηκε πρόσφατα στους αρχαίους Φίλιππους της Καβάλας, της Μακεδονίας,
της Βόρειας Ελλάδος, όπως ανακοίνωσε το Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του
Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης. – ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΕΡΑ για την περιοχή των ΦΙΛΙΠΠΩΝ, ΕΔΩ.
Το Πανεπιστήμιο παρουσίασε
έρευνα που δείχνει ότι η παραγωγή και η κατανάλωση κρασιού στην Ευρώπη
προέρχονται από την προϊστορική Ελλάδα.
Χιλιάδες αρχαίοι σπόροι
σταφυλιών και πυρήνες βρέθηκαν σε αρχαίο σπίτι των Φιλίππων των οποίων το
περιεχόμενο διατηρήθηκε από πυρκαγιά, που συνέβη το 4300 π.Χ. – ΔΙΑΒΑΣΤΕ το και ΕΔΩ.
ΔΕΙΤΕ το βιντεορεπορτάζ του Γ. Λεκάκη:
“ΑΜΠΕΛΟΣ 35.000.000 χρόνων στην Θράκη”.
Το Τμήμα Αρχαιολογίας του
Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης διεξάγει αρχαιοβοτανική έρευνα τα
τελευταία είκοσι χρόνια.
Η έρευνα ξεκίνησε με την
τεχνική της επίπλευσης, μια τεχνική της αρχαιοβοτανικής επιστήμης.
Στην Βόρειο Ελλάδα, οι
καθημερινές γεωργικές δραστηριότητες των ανθρώπων, άρχισαν (τουλάχιστον) από την
7η χιλιετία π.Χ.
Στην Γεωργία του Καυκάσου, ευρέθησαν επίσης ίχνη κρασιού, 8.000 χρόνων.
ΠΗΓΕΣ: Th. Kissel
«The Oldest
Wine in Europe Was Just Discovered in Greece», Greek Reporter,
27.6.2021. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 28.6.2021. Βλ. Επίσης Σ. Μ. Βαλαμώτη / Sultana–Maria
Valamoti, καθηγήτρια Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, ΑΠΘ. ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΑΚΟ
ΔΕΛΤΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΜΕΤΡΙΚΗΣ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑΣ, ΕΑΕ, τ. Ιουλ. 2021.
The oldest wine in Europe was discovered recently in ancient Philippi,
northern Greece, the Department of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki announced.
The University presented research that indicates that making and
drinking wine in Europe originates from prehistoric Greece.
Thousands of ancient grape seeds and pomace were found in ancient Philippi
house whose contents were preserved in a fire that occurred in 4300 B.C.
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Archaeology has
been conducting archaeobotanical research for the last twenty years. The
research began with the use of archeological flotation, an archaeobotanical
sampling technique where an archaeological deposit is placed in a flotation
tank with water that dissolves the deposit until fragments of plants and other
material float to the top.
Sultana-Maria Valamoti, professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, director
of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research in Archaeology/ EDAE and the
PlantCult Laboratory at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and
Innovation of the AUTH, said that “These
first steps were the starting point that led to today’s findings.
“Thousands of liters of soil have been processed by the method of
flotation and a variety of archaeological sites have already been or are being
researched archaeobotanically.
“Thanks to the work done at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
this data, often neglected by research, provides a wealth of information on the
social and economic organization in northern Greece, the daily activities of
people, their farming and agricultural practices, as well as specific symbolic
activities from the 7th to the 1st millennium BC” Valamoti added.
University has been researching prehistoric Greece for decades
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Department of Archeology, who
conducted the research and where Valamoti is a professor of prehistoric
archaeology, has been at the vanguard of archeological research in Greece.
For years the department was led by George Hourmouziadis, the former
Professor Emeritus of prehistoric archaeology, who led excavations in many
prehistoric settlements in Thessaly and Macedonia (such as Dimini, Arkadikos
and Dramas, etc.)
In 1992 he started the excavation of the neolithic lakeside settlement
of Dispilio in Kastoria, Northwestern Greece. A myriad of items were
discovered, which included ceramics, structural elements, seeds, bones,
figurines, personal ornaments, three flutes (considered the oldest in Europe)
and the Dispilio Tablet.
The discovery of the wooden tablet was announced at a symposium in
February 1994 at the University of Thessaloniki. The site’s paleoenvironment,
botany, fishing techniques, tools and ceramics were published informally in the
June 2000 issue of Eptakiklos, a Greek archaeology magazine.
“I speak and I write using the soil as raw material… this soil is not
similar to that which we put in our pots
every autumn. It is the soil of a strange garden, a garden where, thousands of
years before, people like us, walked on the marks of their toil, anger, and of
their rush and calm which they left behind. They left the footprints of their
lives,” he noted on the occasion of the publication of his book “Logia kai Coma
(Words and Soil).”
Hourmouziadis passed away in
2013.
