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Vitis pips in Neolithic Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gad Rausing
Gad Rausing*
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Abstract

Antiquity reported, three years ago, a grape pip securely dated to the British Neolithic. Here are brought together reliable finds of grape pips from the Neolithic of Scandinavia — yet further from the Mediterranean warmth where the vine is comfortable. How they got to the north — by an early passion for viticulture in an unpromising climate? in a precocious long-distance exchange of sultanas? — is an intriguing question

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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 242 , March 1990 , pp. 117 - 122
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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