Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage
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Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage. / Cohen, Pnina; Bacilieri, Roberto; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Privman, Eyal; Boaretto, Elisabetta; Weber, Audrey; Fuks, Daniel; Weiss, Ehud; Erickson-Gini, Tali; Bucking, Scott; Tepper, Yotam; Cvikel, Deborah; Schmidt, Joshua; Gilbert, M. Thomas P.; Wales, Nathan; Bar-Oz, Guy; Meiri, Meirav.
In: PNAS, Vol. 120, No. 17, e2213563120, 2023.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Ancient DNA from a lost Negev Highlands desert grape reveals a Late Antiquity wine lineage
AU - Cohen, Pnina
AU - Bacilieri, Roberto
AU - Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín
AU - Privman, Eyal
AU - Boaretto, Elisabetta
AU - Weber, Audrey
AU - Fuks, Daniel
AU - Weiss, Ehud
AU - Erickson-Gini, Tali
AU - Bucking, Scott
AU - Tepper, Yotam
AU - Cvikel, Deborah
AU - Schmidt, Joshua
AU - Gilbert, M. Thomas P.
AU - Wales, Nathan
AU - Bar-Oz, Guy
AU - Meiri, Meirav
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Recent excavations of Late Antiquity settlements in the Negev Highlands of southern Israel uncovered a society that established commercial-scale viticulture in an arid environment [D. Fuks et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.117, 19780-19791 (2020)]. We applied target-enriched genome-wide sequencing and radiocarbon dating to examine grapevine pips that were excavated at three of these sites. Our analyses revealed centuries long and continuous grape cultivation in the Southern Levant. The genetically diverse pips also provided clues to ancient cultivation strategies aimed at improving agricultural productivity and ensuring food security. Applying genomic prediction analysis, a pip dated to the eighth century CE was determined to likely be from a white grape, to date the oldest to be identified. In a kinship analysis, another pip was found to be descendant from a modern Greek cultivar and was thus linked with several popular historic wines that were once traded across the Byzantine Empire. These findings shed light on historical Byzantine trading networks and on the genetic contribution of Levantine varieties to the classic Aegean landscape.
AB - Recent excavations of Late Antiquity settlements in the Negev Highlands of southern Israel uncovered a society that established commercial-scale viticulture in an arid environment [D. Fuks et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.117, 19780-19791 (2020)]. We applied target-enriched genome-wide sequencing and radiocarbon dating to examine grapevine pips that were excavated at three of these sites. Our analyses revealed centuries long and continuous grape cultivation in the Southern Levant. The genetically diverse pips also provided clues to ancient cultivation strategies aimed at improving agricultural productivity and ensuring food security. Applying genomic prediction analysis, a pip dated to the eighth century CE was determined to likely be from a white grape, to date the oldest to be identified. In a kinship analysis, another pip was found to be descendant from a modern Greek cultivar and was thus linked with several popular historic wines that were once traded across the Byzantine Empire. These findings shed light on historical Byzantine trading networks and on the genetic contribution of Levantine varieties to the classic Aegean landscape.
KW - ancient DNA
KW - archaeobotany
KW - Late Antiquity
KW - Negev Highlands
KW - viticulture
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.2213563120
DO - 10.1073/pnas.2213563120
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 37068234
AN - SCOPUS:85152671708
VL - 120
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 17
M1 - e2213563120
ER -
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