Due to the environment within the well, the plant remains were very well preserved–including thousands of grape seeds. Ucchesu began studying the seeds and plant remains for his doctoral thesis ...

To remedy that, Mariano Ucchesu of the University of Montpellier, France, and his colleagues analyzed ancient seeds for their study published Wednesday in PLOS One. They investigated over 1,700 grape ...

In this study, Ucchesu and colleagues analyzed more than 1,700 grape seeds from 25 archaeological sites in and around Italy, spanning seven millennia, from the Neolithic Period to the Medieval Period.