Ricerc@Sapienza

Grapevine ( Vitis vinifera ) is one of the most important fruit crops of the past and present world, both economically and culturally. The wild and domesticated forms, respectively Vitis vinifera subsp. sylvestris and V. vinifera subsp. vinifera , differ by an array of traits, including the form of their seeds that may be retrieved in archaeological assemblages. These are smaller, rounder and with a shorter stalk in the case of wild grapevine, and larger, more elongated and less sharply sculptured in the cultivated varieties [1].

Multiproxy analysis composed of biostratigraphy and pollen analysis allowed reconstructing the palaeoecolo-gical and palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Tirso river coastal plain in Sardinia (NW Mediterranean) in thelast 6 millennia. We demonstrated that interplay between littoral and ?uvial processes have signi?cantly con-trolled the environmental evolution of the area and have played a key role in the pattern of historical andprehistorical settlements of this wide portion of western Sardinian coastline. At the end of Neolithic period (ca.6.0 to 5.5 cal.