La viticulture en Gaule à l'Âge du Fer

Abstract

In the few available literary sources there is no evidence about the viticulture in Northern Gaul, but in the other hand we have accounts of its existence in the southern areas. Archaeological sources are mainly situated in the South, around Marseille, but also in Provence and Languedoc, where there are discoveries of pips, pollens, vine-shoots, land marks, implements and dolia. On the economical point of view, Marseille produces wine for exportation contrary to indigenous viticultural sites having a very low production. Lattes is a special case where we find an extensive vine cultivation during the 3rd -1st centuries BC.