In recent years,with the increasing abundance of grape(Vitis)remains unearthed from ar-chaeological sites in China,scholars have gradually attracted attention to its utilization in various periods and whether it had been cultivated or domesticated by the ancient people.However,due to the sporadic archaeo-logical discoveries and the defects of grape seed remains,the relevant research has been difficult to carry out in-depth.By analyzing the grape seeds unearthed in three important periods from prehistory to historical peri-od,this paper discusses the utilization of local Vitis plant resources and tries to explain the possibility and motivation behind the cultivation of local grape plants by ancient people in China,based on the background of archaeology.By analyzing the data of native Vitis seeds in three key periods,it was found that although the shape and size of Vitis seeds in these three periods had no obvious difference in each era,they might re-flect the different utilization modes.Combined with the charcoal of fruit trees and other archaeological evi-dence,we believe that the ancestors may have started the artificial cultivation of grape plants(Vitis)from the Late Neolithic Age to the Early Bronze Age,which may be directly related to the high development of agri-culture,the increasing differentiation of social strata and the frequent exchanges between sites and regions at that time.In addition,these factors greatly promoted the rapid development of early civilization,even the fi-nal formation of early countries.
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