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Lorenzo Nigro

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Grapes and vines of the Phoenicians: morphometric analyses of pips from modern varieties and Iron Age archaeological sites in the Western Mediterrane…

2021

The present study aims to contribute to the investigation of the role of Phoenicians in the spreading and trade of the grapevine through the morphometric analysis of grape pips. Waterlogged and charred samples were selected from three Iron Age sites in the Western Mediterranean: Motya (Sicily, Italy), Nuraghe S’Urachi (Sardinia, Italy) and Huelva (Andalusia, Spain). While only Motya is a Phoenician foundation, all three were nevertheless associated with Phoenician expansion and cultural interaction. Ten cultivars from the “Vivaio Federico Paulsen” in Marsala (western Sicily) were chosen as modern reference material. The key challenge was the comparison of archaeological pips preserved throu…

0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climateWestern MediterraneanArcheology[SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and PrehistoryArqueologiaPhoenicians01 natural sciencesFossilization03 medical and health sciencesStatistical analysesPhoenicians; viticulture; morphometry; Western Mediterranean; experimental charringCultivarDomesticationComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS030304 developmental biologyexperimental charring0303 health sciencesViticultureExperimental charringMorphometry15. Life on landviticultureArchaeologylanguage.human_languageGeographyMorphometric analysislanguagePhoenician[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecologymorphometry010606 plant biology & botanyWest mediterranean
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Discrimination and provenances of Phoenician red slip ware using both the solid state electrochemistry and petrographic analyses

2020

[EN] Solid state electrochemistry based on the voltammetry of immobilized microparticles (VIMP) methodology is applied to a series of 80 Phoenician Red Slip samples from the archaeological sites of Motya (Sicily, Italy), Mogador (Morocco), Ramat-Rahel (Israel), Sulky (Sardinia, Italy), Tas Silg (Malta), Pantelleria (Italy), and Cadiz (Spain), dated from the 8(th) to the 6(th) century BC. Upon attachment of sub-microsamples to graphite electrodes in contact with aqueous H2SO4 electrolyte, voltammetric features due to the reduction of Fe(III) minerals and the oxidation of Fe(II) ones, complemented with electrocatalytic effects on oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reactions, provide charac…

CeramicsMaterials sciencePetrographyGeochemistrySolid-stateSlip (materials science)language.human_languageAnalytical ChemistryPetrographyvisual_artPINTURAlanguagevisual_art.visual_art_mediumElectrochemistryPhoenicianCeramicPhoenicianelectrochemistry; petrography; ceramics; phoenician
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Genetic structure and differentiation from early bronze age in the mediterranean island of sicily: Insights from ancient mitochondrial genomes

2022

Sicily is one of the main islands of the Mediterranean Sea, and it is characterized by a variety of archaeological records, material culture and traditions, reflecting the history of migrations and populations’ interaction since its first colonization, during the Paleolithic. These deep and complex demographic and cultural dynamics should have affected the genomic landscape of Sicily at different levels; however, the relative impact of these migrations on the genomic structure and differentiation within the island remains largely unknown. The available Sicilian modern genetic data gave a picture of the current genetic structure, but the paucity of ancient data did not allow so far to make p…

ANCIENT DNA mitochondrial genomes genetic structure coalescent simulations approximate bayesian computationa DNA Sicily Mediterranean Early Bronze Age MotyaMediterraneanSettore BIO/08 - AntropologiaMotyacoalescent simulationsmitochondrial genomesGeneticsEarly Bronze Agegenetic structureMolecular MedicineANCIENT DNAa DNASicilyGenetics (clinical)approximate bayesian computation
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