Produzione e consumo sociale del vino in Occidente: l’apporto dei Fenici

Abstract

The aim of the contribution is to verify the role played by the Phoenicians in the spread of the cultivation of the vine and the production and social consumption of wine in the central-western basin of the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coasts of the Iberian Peninsula since the beginning of the first millennium BC. Starting from the most significant archaeological contexts and with the help of archaeometric analysis, the fundamental stages that led the Phoenicians to make this precious food known in the West will be reconstructed. The focus will be on Sardinia – the nodal area of the commercial traffic of the Tyrian ships with the Tyrrhenian coasts of the Italian Peninsula – and on Southern Iberia, starting from the early relations entertained by the Phoenicians with the indigenous elites of the Huelva region