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Looking for ancient wine as gift for the Prince of Lavau (5th c. BC)

2017

International audience; The excavations at Lavau brought to light a large monumental necropolis with a central burial mound overlying an undisturbed chieftain’s grave from the end of the Early Iron Age or the beginning of the Late Iron Age. In the funerary chamber rich grave furniture accompanied the dead: a bronze cauldron containing serving and drinking vessels of ceramic, silver, and bronze, two bronze plates, and a cist. As there were visible deposits present on the inner surface of the cauldron, a series of samples were taken from different parts of the cauldron and the locally made oenochoe. Using a double-step methodology of extraction and structural analysis by GC-MS, the main bioma…