{"id":2298,"date":"2012-01-14T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.art.listephoenix.com\/?page_id=693"},"modified":"2025-04-03T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T10:18:13","slug":"fourrier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/?page_id=2298","title":{"rendered":"Graines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><strong>Citer cet article\u00a0: CRP 2012. Description et caract\u00e9risation des palmiers du genre Phoenix: description morphologique des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s et architecture des plantes. Chapitre 4\/4: Analyse morphom\u00e9trique des graines.\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>R\u00e9dacteur Robert CASTELLANA.\u00a0Statut: compte-rendu de recherches. Edition en ligne.<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/?page_id=2274\">Lien<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/collecte-typologie-1.jpg\" target=\"\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3703\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/collecte-typologie-1.jpg\" alt=\"seeds archeology\" width=\"241\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/collecte-typologie-1.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/collecte-typologie-1-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Les vestiges de palmier dattier (<em>Phoenix dactylifera<\/em>) sont relativement fr\u00e9quents sur les sites arch\u00e9ologiques. Ils comprennent des bases de stipes, des rachis de palmes, des folioles et des fibres utilis\u00e9s comme mat\u00e9riau, ainsi que des fruits et des graines. La graine est le mat\u00e9riel le plus abondant et le mieux conserv\u00e9 en contexte arch\u00e9ologique, sous forme dess\u00e9ch\u00e9e ou carbonis\u00e9e.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"> Faisant partie int\u00e9grante du fruit, la graine a certainement \u00e9t\u00e9 affect\u00e9e par les s\u00e9lections humaines relatives \u00e0 l\u2019am\u00e9lioration des qualit\u00e9s fruiti\u00e8res. Les recherches men\u00e9es par le Centre de Bio-Arch\u00e9ologie et d\u2019Ecologie (CBAE) de Montpellier visent \u00e0 la mise au point d\u2019un outil permettant, \u00e0 partir de la r\u00e9alisation d&rsquo;un vaste \u00e9chantillon de graines portant sur l&rsquo;ensemble du genre Phoenix: <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&#8211; de distinguer les esp\u00e8ces de Phoenix pouvant co-exister dans certaines aires g\u00e9ographiques, <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&#8211; de caract\u00e9riser la diversit\u00e9 actuelle chez le dattier et les groupes de vari\u00e9t\u00e9s, <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&#8211; de discriminer les individus sauvages des domestiques dans la mesure o\u00f9 actuellement aucune population authentique de dattiers sauvages n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 clairement identifi\u00e9e.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><b>M\u00c9THODES<\/b><\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">\u00a0ET COLLABORATIONS<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">La m\u00e9thode retenue est la morphom\u00e9trie g\u00e9om\u00e9trique en 3 dimensions, qui permet de d\u00e9crire des changements de conformation d\u2019un objet, ici la graine de datte, en fonction de divers param\u00e8tres, comme la taille de l\u2019objet, des facteurs g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques ou environnementaux. Elle fait appel \u00e0 la description des contours par les transform\u00e9es elliptiques de Fourier (TEF). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">La constitution d\u2019une collection de r\u00e9f\u00e9rence a eu lieu en collaboration avec de nombreux partenaires des pays de production datti\u00e8re. Elle a permis de r\u00e9aliser: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">1) Des tests m\u00e9thodologiques portant sur: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">a) la variabilit\u00e9 morphologique des graines de dattes \u00e0 diff\u00e9rentes \u00e9chelles : <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">* variabilit\u00e9 intra-individuelle (entre r\u00e9gimes), <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">* variabilit\u00e9 entre individus d\u2019une m\u00eame vari\u00e9t\u00e9, sans et avec variation des conditions de croissance. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">b) l\u2019influence des conditions de conservation, afin de pouvoir appliquer la m\u00e9thode \u00e0 du mat\u00e9riel arch\u00e9ologique soumis \u00e0 carbonisation et dessiccation. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">2) La comparaison des r\u00e9sultats avec ceux obtenus par g\u00e9notypage.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>BIBLIOGRAPHIE<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>GROS-BALTHAZARD M., NEWTON C., IVORRA S., PIERRE M.H., PINTAUD J.C., TERRAL J.F 2016. The Domestication Syndrome in Phoenix dactylifera Seeds: Toward the Identification of Wild Date Palm Populations.<\/strong> In\u00a0: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0152394. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0152394. Link: <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><a title=\"Abstract Investigating crop origins is a priority to understand the evolution of plants under domestica- tion, develop strategies for conservation and valorization of agrobiodiversity and acquire fun- damental knowledge for cultivar improvement. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) belongs to the genus Phoenix, which comprises 14 species morphologically very close, sometimes hardly distinguishable. It has been cultivated for millennia in the Middle East and in North Africa and constitutes the keystone of oasis agriculture. Yet, its origins remain poorly under- stood as no wild populations are identified. Uncultivated populations have been described but they might represent feral, i.e. formerly cultivated, abandoned forms rather than truly wild pop- ulations. In this context, this study based on morphometrics applied to 1625 Phoenix seeds aims to (1) differentiate Phoenix species and (2) depict the domestication syndrome observed in cultivated date palm seeds using other Phoenix species as a \u201c wild \u201d reference. This will help discriminate truly wild from feral forms, thus providing new insights into the evolutionary history of this species. Seed size was evaluated using four parameters: length, width, thickness and dorsal view surface. Seed shape was quantified using outline analyses based on the Elliptic Fourier Transform method. The size and shape of seeds allowed an accurate differentiation of Phoenix species. The cultivated date palm shows distinctive size and shape features, com- pared to other Phoenix species: seeds are longer and elongated. This morphological shift may be interpreted as a domestication syndrome, resulting from the long-term history of cultivation, selection and human-mediated dispersion. Based on seed attributes, some uncultivated date palms from Oman may be identified as wild. This opens new prospects regarding the possible existence and characterization of relict wild populations and consequently for the understand- ing of the date palm origins. Finally, we here describe a pipeline for the identification of the domestication syndrome in seeds that could be used in other crops.\" href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BEECH M., SHEPHERD E. 2001. Archaeobotanical evidence for early date consumption on Dalma Island, United Arab Emirates. <\/strong>In: Antiquity 75\u00a0: 83-9. Link: <\/span><a title=\"Comparing the size of the archaeological date stones from Dalma and Sabiyah with other archaeological material as well as with modern date varieties from the UAE reveals the following trends: *archaeological (late 6th mill BC - Dalma &amp; Sabiyah) length range = 15.0-22.5mm, breadth range = 7.0-9.5mm, thickness range = 6.1-9.4mm *archaeological (3rd-2nd mill BC - Ur, Failaka, Saar and Hili 8) length range = 10.4-19.5mm, breadth range = 4.6-7.5mm, thickness range = 4.8-6.8mm *modern varieties (UAE) ca 70 varieties, total sample size = 752 length range = 13.5-28.0mm, breadth range = 5.5-11.0mm, thickness range = 4.5-9.5mm The older Neolithic dates tend to be slightly larger than their Bronze age counterparts, and at the upper end of the measurements of the modern varieties. \" href=\"http:\/\/www.adias-uae.com\/publications\/dates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/www.adias-uae.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>GROS-BALTHAZARD M.<\/strong> <strong>2012. Sur les origines, l&rsquo;histoire \u00e9volutive et biog\u00e9ographique du palmier-dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.) : l&rsquo;apport de la g\u00e9n\u00e9tique et de la morphom\u00e9trie. <\/strong>Th\u00e8se, Un. Montpellier.<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Link: <a title=\"Cette th\u00e8se porte sur l\u2019histoire \u00e9volutive et biog\u00e9ographique du palmier dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.). Elle a pour propos d\u2019\u00e9clairer les origines m\u00e9connues de la domestication de cette esp\u00e8ce, d\u2019une importance majeure pour les civilisations d\u2019Afrique du Nord et du Moyen-Orient. L\u2019auteur a fait appel pour cela \u00e0 une m\u00e9thodologie originale, associant des analyses morphom\u00e9triques et g\u00e9n\u00e9tiques. Les donn\u00e9es arch\u00e9ologiques attestent de la pr\u00e9sence du palmier dattier d\u00e8s la fin du 4\u00e8me mill\u00e9naire avant notre \u00e8re, notamment sous la forme de graines. L\u2019analyse morphom\u00e9trique des contours de ces graines, men\u00e9e avec la m\u00e9thode des transform\u00e9es elliptiques de Fourier, compar\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019analyse g\u00e9n\u00e9tique des individus correspondants \u00e0 l\u2019aide de marqueurs ADN de type microsatellites, a concern\u00e9 un vaste \u00e9chantillon de palmiers du genre Phoenix. Elle a mis en \u00e9vidence une nette diff\u00e9renciation entre les individus sauvages et les individus cultiv\u00e9s. R\u00e9alis\u00e9e \u00e0 partir de s\u00e9quences chloroplastiques, une analyse phylog\u00e9n\u00e9tique du genre Phoenix a par ailleurs permis d\u2019identifier les parents proches du dattier. La combinaison de ces deux approches a conduit : * \u00e0 montrer que la domestication du palmier dattier a eu lieu dans deux foyers ind\u00e9pendants, situ\u00e9s en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient. * \u00e0 proposer une caract\u00e9risation permettant d\u2019identifier les populations de dattiers sauvages.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biu-montpellier.fr\/florabium\/servlet\/DocumentFileManager?source=ged&amp;document=ged:IDOCS:20420&amp;resolution=&amp;recordId=theses%3ABIU_THESE%3A1409&amp;file=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/www.biu-montpellier.fr\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MADDOURI S.S., AMIRI H., BELAIR A., NOURI N., 2000. Caract\u00e9risation elliptique par coefficients de Fourier du contour du script Arabe en vue de la normalisation des caract\u00e8res. <\/strong>In: Colloque International Francophone sur l\u2019Ecrit et le Document. Link:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loria.fr\/%7Eabelaid\/publis\/cifed00_samia.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/www.loria.fr\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NESBIT M. 1993. Archaeobotanical evidence for early Dilmun diet at Sax, Bahrain. <\/strong>In: Arabian archeology and epigraphy, 28p. Link:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientgrains.org\/nesbitt1993saar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/www.ancientgrains.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>NEWTON C., IVORRA S. and TERRAL J.F., 2008. De la diversit\u00e9 actuelle aux vestiges arch\u00e9ologiques du dattier : d\u00e9veloppement de l\u2019analyse morphom\u00e9trique des graines de dattes. <\/strong>R\u00e9sum\u00e9 de la communication pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au Colloque Dies Palmarum, Sanremo, Italy, 2008, 4p. Link:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NEWTON-C-IVORRA-S-et-TERRAL-JF-2008fr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newton-Ivorra-Terral 2008<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TERRAL J.F, NEWTON C., IVORRA S., GROS-BALTHAZARD M., DE MORAIS C.T., PICQ S.,\u00a0 TENGBERG M., PINTAUD J.C. 2012. \u00a0Insights into the historical biogeography of the date palm (<em>Phoenix dactylifera<\/em> L.) using geometric morphometry of modern and ancient seeds.<\/strong> In: Journal of Biogeography, Volume 39, Issue 5, pages 929\u2013941, May 2012. Link:<\/span> <a title=\"Abstract *Aim\u2002 The main purpose of this work is to understand the origin, history, historical biogeography and mechanisms of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) domestication. *Location\u2002 Seeds of uncultivated Phoenix individuals from isolated Oman populations, cultivated date palm varieties of various geographical origins and other related Phoenix species were analysed. Additionally, well-preserved seeds from Egyptian archaeological sites (14th century bc to 8th century ad) were compared with the morphometric reference model based on the analysis of modern material. *Methods\u2002 Elliptic Fourier transforms (EFT), a morphometric method applied to shape outline analysis, were used to characterize seed shape and to quantify morphological diversity in P. dactylifera and related species. *Results\u2002 Analysis of seed outlines by EFT (1) showed that P. dactylifera can be differentiated from other Phoenix species and (2) enabled the quantification of patterns of shape differentiation in the genus Phoenix at different taxonomic, geographical and chronological levels. Date palm agrobiodiversity, partitioned in distinct morphotypes, appeared to be complex in terms of geographical structure. Allocation of archaeological seeds to different modern Phoenix forms and date palm morphotypes allowed us to reveal ancient forms consumed and\/or exploited in Egypt and finally to determine spatial and temporal changes in agrobiodiversity. *Main conclusions\u2002 Based on the morphological diversity quantified in P. dactylifera and related species, we characterized ancestral seed shape features present in uncultivated populations. The geographical distribution pattern of seed shapes points to human dispersal routes that spread cultivation from one or more initial \u2018domestication centres\u2019. Finally, this work provides a powerful tool to identify ancient forms as demonstrated by the analysis of well-preserved Egyptian archaeological seeds, dating from the 14th century bc to the 8th century ad. Results open new and fascinating perspectives on the investigation of the origins and chrono-geographical fluctuation of date palm agrobiodiversity.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Jean-Frederic_Terral\/publication\/257770015_Insights_into_the_historical_biogeography_of_the_date_palm_%28Phoenix_dactylifera_L.%29_using_geometric_morphometry_of_modern_and_ancient_seeds\/links\/00463525f6d5d8198f000000.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/www.researchgate.net.\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>TERRAL J.F., IVORRA S., TITO C., NEWTON C., TENGBERG M. and PINTAUD J.C. 2010. De la diversit\u00e9 actuelle aux vestiges arch\u00e9ologiques du palmier dattier (Phoenix dactylifera L.). D\u00e9veloppement de descripteurs g\u00e9om\u00e9triques des graines de dattes.<\/strong> In: Actes du 3e S\u00e9minaire AUF-BIOVEG, Biotechnologies du palmier dattier, Montpellier (France), 18-20 novembre 2008, pp. 127-137. Link: <\/span><a title=\"L\u2019histoire du palmier dattier, indissociable de celle des oasis, n\u2019a pas encore livr\u00e9 tous ses secrets. Les vestiges arch\u00e9obotaniques les plus anciens, attestant de la consommation de dattes, sont des graines  carbonis\u00e9es et min\u00e9ralis\u00e9es d\u2019assemblages n\u00e9olithiques d\u2019Arabie orientale et dat\u00e9es du VIe mill\u00e9naire av. J.-C. (Beech et Shepherd 2001 ; Beech, 2003). Le statut du palmier dattier n\u2019est toutefois pas \u00e9tabli pour cette \u00e9poque car, en l\u2019\u00e9tat actuel des recherches,  aucun caract\u00e8re ne permet de diff\u00e9rencier dans le mat\u00e9riel arch\u00e9obotanique les dattes de palmier \u00absauvage\u00bb des dattes de palmier cultiv\u00e9. Parce que les dattes sont facilement conservables et transportables, la d\u00e9couverte de graines ne constitue pas une preuve, ni de la culture du dattier, ni de l\u2019existence d\u2019oasis. En revanche, la pr\u00e9sence simultan\u00e9e  de fragments de stipe, de graines de dattier et d\u2019autres plantes cultiv\u00e9es (arbres fruitiers, c\u00e9r\u00e9ales, l\u00e9gumineuses...) plaide en faveur de l\u2019existence d\u2019une polyculture oasienne. Ce type d\u2019assemblage  arch\u00e9obotanique dont la premi\u00e8re attestation remonte \u00e0 la fin du IVe mill\u00e9naire av. J.-C. \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur de la p\u00e9ninsule d\u2019Oman (Cleuziou, 1992) est couramment mis en \u00e9vidence tout au long du IIIe mill\u00e9naire av. J.-C (Tengberg et Lombard, 2002 ; Tengberg, 2003a, 2003b). D\u00e8s lors et surtout \u00e0 partir du IIe mill\u00e9naire av. J.-C jusqu\u2019au d\u00e9but de l\u2019\u00e8re chr\u00e9tienne, de nombreuses attestations arch\u00e9obotaniques, repr\u00e9sentations iconographiques et mentions textuelles montrent que la palmeraie oasienne se d\u00e9veloppe partout  autour du golfe persique et en Afrique saharienne, particuli\u00e8rement en Egypte.\" href=\"http:\/\/horizon.documentation.ird.fr\/exl-doc\/pleins_textes\/divers12-09\/010051492.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\/horizon.documentation.ird.fr\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Lire aussi notre page web consacr\u00e9e aux \u00e9tudes d&rsquo;anthropologie relatives \u00e0 l&rsquo;histoire de la palmiculture dans le monde m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en:<\/strong><\/span> <a title=\"L\u2019importance et la diversit\u00e9 des produits issus du palmier-dattier en ont fait l\u2019arbre nourricier de l\u2019Orient, d\u00e8s le n\u00e9olithique et la naissance des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s modernes. Comme les c\u00e9r\u00e9ales ou la vigne, le palmier fait en effet partie des plantes dont le commerce a jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le majeur, dans les \u00e9changes culturels entre les peuples et les civilisations. L\u2019aire culturale originelle du palmier-dattier est situ\u00e9e en Orient. Elle co\u00efncide avec l\u2019invention de l\u2019agriculture et l\u2019apparition des grandes civilisations du monde antique. Depuis cette \u00e9poque, le dattier fait l'objet d'usages rituels qui ont perdur\u00e9 avec une \u00e9tonnante permanence, au fil des si\u00e8cles et des religions. Ils concernent l\u2019ensemble des civilisations du Moyen-Orient et du Monde m\u00e9diterran\u00e9en, notamment l'Assyrie, l'Egypte, la Palestine et la Gr\u00e8ce. Les valeurs rituelles antiques du palmier vont conna\u00eetre de nouveaux d\u00e9veloppements dans l'Europe romaine puis m\u00e9di\u00e9vale. Ils accompagnent l\u2019expansion du christianisme, de l\u2019iconographie des martyrs aux c\u00e9l\u00e9brations hautes en couleur du Dimanche des palmes, en passant par les premiers d\u00e9veloppements du monachisme dans les d\u00e9serts de l\u2019Egypte et du moyen-orient. Cette \u00e9poque est aussi celle de son introduction en Europe, en Espagne et en Italie. Au travers du Projet Phoenix, le Jardin Exp\u00e9rimental de Bordighera est le d\u00e9positaire de ces riches traditions, qu'il cherche \u00e0 mettre en valeur en d\u00e9veloppant des partenariats avec l'ensemble des r\u00e9gions concern\u00e9es.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.listephoenix.com\/?page_id=2277\">\/www.listephoenix.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citer cet article\u00a0: CRP 2012. Description et caract\u00e9risation des palmiers du genre Phoenix: description morphologique des vari\u00e9t\u00e9s et architecture des plantes. 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