Ep. 1277 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 4 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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Wine lovers tune in for your weekly fix only on Italian wine podcast. If you want to own a copy of this new must read Italian wine textbook, just go to amazon dot com or visit us at mama jumbo shrimp dot com. The hidden boundaries of Italian vita culture, the origin of varied diversity. In order to trace the origins of the grape varietal cultivated in Italy, it is essential to identify the confidence of Italian territory that the limit those cultural areas that have preserved often unconsciously the oldest traces of primitive agriculture. Italy is still rich in these borders. Just think of the hidden borders separating Latinville culture from Greek filter culture on the island of iskia or that on the etruscan enclave of Kapua surrounded by the territories of the Eritreans. The same can be said of the clear dividing line between Longo Barn inspired with the culture west of bologna and byzantine with the culture as far as the sea or the boundaries in ancient Apulia between Greek and dalmatian populations made evident by the different use of wine in funerary rights. It is in the hidden frontiers, the limes, in the cultures of the margins that the fracture between the Viticulture of the neighboring territories emerges, where the unaltered style and myths of the origins are found where the inertia of mental structures before even those of economic organization are stable elements for an infinite number of generations of winemakers and determine their daily choices. Borders are notoriously places of crisis, as detention and conflict, but there are places of exchange of regulation between different systems and of innovation. As anthropologists call this cultural expressions edge effects. A border is a cultural paradox that can be simultaneously a place of separation of creation of what are called parallel cultures, and then of encounter and fusion or of conversions. Whenever a people enter the territory of another population, a border is created. And as a general rule, two situations can arise. One of a conflict that leads to the almost constant maintenance of the cultures that confront each other and another of integration of the two cultures where the stronger one dictates the conditions of the fusion. Italy, with its position between the west and the east and routes that populations have hollowed for centuries with countless cultural and productive manifestations of its multicultural is evidence of this encounter between different cultures. The border that is not just a line, but a space endowed with its own dimension that brings closer to a frontier to something that more easily accepts the possibility of being modified and that determines within itself different experiences while trying to cancel out its most hostile and aggressive trait, death of the front. The notion of Frontier and Border are not easy to define unless one uses a metaphor, a creative tool often employed in scientific thought. In order to represent something that separates and unites at the same time, It is necessary to identify a kind of no man's land, a place between spaces, not only geographical, but also cultural, each occupied by society or culture distinct from the other. In a histographic interpretation, the frontier is the area where the interaction between two cultures takes place. And because the frontier is a product of intrusive action, in its movement of expansion, it presses on neighboring societies and in the case of the vine, exports its pattern to other places. This metaphorical new man's land is a frontier zone where interaction between two cultures takes place or conversely a space capable of producing cultural historical continuity and preservation in the guise of a kind of reproduction of the original society that meet without ever integrating. This is the case of the hidden frontiers where vastly different cultures that maintain their unaltered individuality are opposed without ever integrating. This presence of vines linked by kinship relationships. Cultivated from time immemorial in contiguous territories, identify that the cultural models still recognizable in Italy that have survived for millennia unaltered in their essential features. Characteristics of extreme originality, conquering the West, two parallel stories. Although, it is not easy to reconcile the results of linguistic research with gene geography, nor history with molecular genetics, as they each employ very different methodology, advances in knowledge about the Indo European origin of the peoples of Europe are the result of a multidisciplinary approach. The geographical position of Italy enclosed between continental Europe and the Mediterranean Sea makes the Italian people very important to the investigation of demographic events through the information provided by DNA research. In relation to the genetic relationships between modern European populations and early European gatherers, Neulistic farmers, and bronze age nomadic pastoralists, it is possible to assess the results of migration and mixing, both ancient and historical. The arrival of inter European languages in Continental Europe has been linked to Brown's age migration from the Panticaspian stepping region. The study of human mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms has made it possible to elucidate the genetic composition of human groups to follow their evolution to discover their meaning and importance of exchanges between groups and to recognize their migrations, classifying populations according to their genetic affinity. Are you enjoying this podcast? Don't forget to visit our YouTube channel, mama jumbo shrimp for fascinating videos covering Stevie Kim and her travels across Italy and beyond, meeting winemakers, eating local food, and taking in the scenery. Now, back to the show. Every European population that has been studied has been shown to have genetic sequences that can be traced back to both palaeolithic hunter gatherers and neolithic farmers. Since some sequences are more common in certain areas than in the others, The migration routes of human groups can be traced from this data. The integration of knowledge about the formation of movements in ancient populations and the equivalent circulation of vines assess through the analysis of nuclear and plus modal DNA polymorphism by SSR and CP SSR markers have established the geographical origin of the vines and appeared in which they arrived in the western Mediterranean. The Mediterranean shores stretching between Sicily, southern Italy, and the southern Balkans have witnessed a long series of migratory movements and cultural exchanges. As a result, the current population diversity is composed of multiple genetic layers, making deciphering the diverse ancestral and historical contributions particularly challenging. Finings from molecular analysis of human DNA reveal a shared Mediterranean genetic continuity extending from Sicily to Cyprus where southern Italy populations appear genetically closer to Greek speaking islands than to mainland Greece. In addition to a predominant neolithic background, traces of post neolithic ancestors linked to the levant and caucuses have been identified consistent with bronze age, maritime migrations. Analysis of the genetic structure of numerous populations of the eastern Mediterranean and that of the grape varieties grown in the same territories highlights a striking coincidence in the ancient circulation of humans and grape varieties witness historically since the bronze age, suggesting a Mediterranean genetic continuum. DNA profiles of some of the arborish, grieco and Gregan linguistic minorities of Southern Italy based on their relative geographical and cultural isolation show a particularly strong genetic proximity between the populations of Calabrio and Eastern Sicily. For Western Sicily, the study found a closer affinity with certain minorities of Apulia. Strikingly similar findings were made in relation to some minor grape varieties, Roni Magna Greta and Sicily. The findings of linguistic Palliotology also identify a substantial continuity bordering almost on identity between the language of the ancient settlers of Magna Gretcha, and that revealed by the analysis of present day dialects, evidence of a substantial homogeneity between the ancient and traditional wine growing worlds, a reflection of a corresponding cultural homogeneity. In Southern Italy, the genetic composition of populations is very complex. In addition to the contribution of the earliest migrations, largely attributable to the DNA of Western and Caucasian hunter gatherers with very ancient traces of realistic Iranian peoples unique in Italy. The contribution of genes from the anatolian peoples who migrated during the bronze age was also very important. The anatolian people had left their native lands because of the climate crisis of four thousand two hundred BC and acquire the genetic inheritances of the transcaucasian and mesopotamian civilizations remarkably through the analysis of S and P markers A very close similarity can be observed between human genetic makeup and that of the great varieties still present in the central and southern Italy. In fact, this viticultural populations show a genetic similarity. Which from north to south is fading with multicultural populations from Caucasus, Anatolia, the nearest and the Balkan range, regions from which bronze age migrants had arrived. Northern Italian Vitocultural populations on the contrary show a high similarity with those of northeastern Europe and France. A case in point is Sicily where there is a clear genetic partitioning of the Viticultural populations between those genetically akin to the nearest Eastern Sicily and those closer to the Northern Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, Western Sicily. This is explained by the different areas of cultural influence, Greek and Phoenician, respectively. On the island, evidenced by the Silinontep border. In Northern Italy, The earliest genetic contributions were brought by neolithic anatolian populations and eastern staffy hunter gatherer communities. During the bronze age, migrations from northeastern Europe were triggered by the forty two hundred BC crisis, due to a cold wet period that pushed populations southward in search of a more temperate climates. Proceed this phase from eight thousand BC, massive northward and westward migrations flooded central and western Europe. Driven by climatic factors and catastrophic events such as a gray drought and a flooding of the black sea through the so called wave of advanced demographic model. It is understood, therefore, that the interaction between human and mind has always been characterized by a very strong bond. A bond that has been uninterrupted since the very dawn of civilization. As they populated new lands, migrants brought with them the genetic material of agriculture planting and propagating in the new lands during the country. One extremely clear outcome of this migration is that the genetic variability of Italians is distributed along the north, south axis, clearly reflecting the geography of the country just as with grape varieties. In summary, It can be sad that the origin of many vine varieties, albeit with the effects of genetic drift on present day populations is a rental. Furthermore, in contrast to cereals, wheat, and barley, There has been significant local domestication through selection and gene integration leading to new varieties, endemic diffusion model, which offers the best explanation for early forms of agricultural diffusion in South Central Europe, and a cultural diffusion model to Northwest and Europe appear effective respectively for colonial and commercial experiences in Southern Italy for grapevines. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, HMLIFM, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italian wine podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time, chi qing.