Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081758%3A_____%2F23%3A00570546" target="_blank" >RIV/68081758:_____/23:00570546 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-023-00909-1" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-023-00909-1</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00909-1" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00334-023-00909-1</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Wild or cultivated? a study of Vitis sylvestris in natura in Slovakia and implications for archaeology and archaeobotany (morphometric approach)

Original language description

The archaeobotanical identification of Vitis pips, which is often based only on visual assessment of the finds or on morphometric methods, is problematic. The problem of distinguishing wild from domesticated strains arises especially in the differentiation of early cultivars. Correct identification often fails even when mathematical methods based on dimensional measurements are used. To verify the success of two classification methods commonly used in archaeology, their procedures were applied to modern pips of wild Vitis sylvestris grown in natura in Slovakia, coming from different localities and with different numbers of pips. The results of these measurements were concordant with archaeobotanical findings of grapevine pips from the Great Moravian site of Mikulčice-Valy situated in the region of South Moravia (Czech Republic). The results show that traditional methods have difficulty in correctly classifying pips from fruits with more than one pip and, to a lesser extent, pips of fruits from sun-bleached stands. These grape species tend to be classified as cultivated. Thanks to the results on the error rate of morphometric methods, it is also possible to characterize the archaeobotanical finds from Mikulčice, which were defined as cultivated.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-01878S" target="_blank" >GA17-01878S: Lifestyle and identity of the Great Moravian nobility: archaeological and bioarchaeological analysis of the evidence of Mikulčice’s uppermost elites</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

ISSN

0939-6314

e-ISSN

1617-6278

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

321-337

UT code for WoS article

000946856100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85149746903