Where we reconstruct the conquest of the Gauls by tracking the Roman wine consumed by the future vanquished.
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Before conquering the Mediterranean at the beginning of our era, the Romans dominated it commercially. Huge quantities of wine amphorae are found in the wrecks along the coasts, as well as almost everywhere on land. In Gaul, during the century which preceded the battle of Alésia and the surrender of Vercingetorix, it was calculated that more than one hundred million amphorae of twenty-five liters of Roman wine were consumed by the Gauls... This is how that archaeologists reconstruct the route of the amphorae, the route of the conquest of the Gauls.
Ancient globalization
This unexpected journey begins with Commander Cousteau's first underwater archaeological excavation off the coast of Marseille in 1952. Luc Long, an underwater archaeologist specializing in Mediterranean wrecks, returned to this excavation thirty years later and discovered two boats stacked one above the other. on the other a century apart. The two ships transported wine, one in small quantities and from various sources, the other several thousand amphorae identical to those in present-day Tuscany. Matthieu Poux, a great specialist in the Gallo-Roman period, is continuing the investigation. It tells how the Gauls imbibed the culture of the invader by adopting their tastes and their way of living.
“Mare Nostrum: the amphorae route”
Director: Nicolas Jouvin
Production: ARTE FRANCE, AUDIOVISUEL MULTIMEDIA INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION
© ARTE - 2011
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