Yecla will host a session of Congress Archaeology of Wine in Late Antique and Medieval Times to be held in our region from tomorrow, Wednesday October 22 to October 24, 2008 organized by the Autonomous Region through the Regional Museums entity Murcia.
There are also sessions in Murcia Archaeological Museum, Archaeological Museum "Jerónimo Molina" of Jumilla and Bullas Wine Museum.
The scientific direction of Congress shall be for the teachers Juan Blazquez Perez of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Sebastian Celeste Perez, of the Archaeological Institute of Mérida, CSIC.
The conference aims to continue the archaeological study of the occurrence and spread of wine culture in the Iberian Peninsula deepening, both socio-economic and cultural.
In this third edition focuses on the Late Antique and Medieval periods, Islamic and Christian-time latter that formed the mechanisms of production and exchange that eventually gave rise to the still existing map production.
The congressmen were transferred Thursday morning October 23 at Yecla to develop in our House of Culture, the presentations and discussions under the program established.
The session, chaired by the Director of the Archaeological Museum "Cayetano de Mergelina" Yecla, Liborio Molina Ruiz, will begin at 17.00 with the presentation of the paper "The social role of vine cultivation in Andalusia in the Late Media "by Professor of the University of Sevilla, María Mercedes Fernández Borrego.
Subsequently filed a series of communications Sebastián Celestino Archaeological Institute of Merida and the session will end with a discussion of the papers presented this afternoon.
Following the scientific workshop, will conduct a tour of Bodegas La Purisima, who has kindly offered to assist in this conference.
Later Yecla City Council will host a dinner for all attendees.
After completion of the conference will be published the minutes, picking up the papers and papers presented.
It will include a presentation made by Liborio Molina Ruiz, which includes the archaeological work between 1999 and 2000 hold the remains of Roman times.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla