DNA sleuth hunts wine roots in Anatolia

Agence France Press (via Google Hosted News) ^ | 11-27-2012 | Suzanne Mustacich

[Renfield]

ELAZIG, Turkey — There are easier places to make wine than the spectacular, desolate landscapes of southeast Turkey, but DNA analysis suggests it is here that Stone Age farmers first domesticated the wine grape.

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"We wanted to collect samples from wild and cultivated grape vines from the Near East -- that means southeastern Anatolia, Armenia and Georgia -- to see in which place the wild grape was, genetically speaking, linked the closest to the cultivated variety."

"It turned out to be southeastern Anatolia," the Asian part of modern Turkey, said Vouillamoz, speaking at the EWBC wine conference in the Turkish city of Izmir this month. "We propose the hypothesis that it is most likely the first place of grape vine domestication."...

[Renfield]

Ping

[Uncle Miltie]

Islam: Nothing a good glass of wine couldn’t cure!

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Renfield. I hope they find a pile of prehistoric corks. ;') To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Renfield. I hope they find a pile of prehistoric corks. ;') To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[colorado tanker]

Soooo many of the crops we cultivate today originated in that part of the world.

[Stat-boy]

While I did not agree with much of the author’s analysis, the book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is definitely worth a read for a good summary of ancient civilization technology and development.

[SunkenCiv]