The archaeobotanical identification of Vitis pips, which is often based only on visual assessment of the finds or on morphometric methods, is problematic. The problem of distinguishing wild from domesticated strains arises especially in the differentiation of early cultivars. Correct identification often fails even when mathematical methods based on dimensional measurements are used. To verify the success of two classification methods commonly used in archaeology, their procedures were applied to modern pips of wild Vitis sylvestris grown in natura in Slovakia, coming from different localities and with different numbers of pips. The results of these measurements were concordant with archaeobotanical findings of grapevine pips from the Great Moravian site of Mikulčice-Valy situated in the region of South Moravia (Czech Republic). The results show that traditional methods have difficulty in correctly classifying pips from fruits with more than one pip and, to a lesser extent, pips of fruits from sun-bleached stands. These grape species tend to be classified as cultivated. Thanks to the results on the error rate of morphometric methods, it is also possible to characterize the archaeobotanical finds from Mikulčice, which were defined as cultivated.

葡萄籽的考古植物学鉴定通常仅基于对发现物的视觉评估或形态测量方法，这是有问题的。区分野生品系和驯化品系的问题尤其出现在早期栽培品种的分化中。即使使用基于尺寸测量的数学方法，正确识别也常常失败。为了验证考古学中常用的两种分类方法的成功，将它们的程序应用于自然生长的野生樟子松的现代籽粒在斯洛伐克，来自不同的地方和不同的点数。这些测量结果与位于南摩拉维亚（捷克共和国）地区 Mikulčice-Valy 的大摩拉维亚遗址的葡萄籽的考古植物学发现一致。结果表明，传统方法难以正确分类果核多于一核的水果，以及在较小程度上对晒白果树果核的分类。这些葡萄品种往往被归类为栽培品种。由于形态测量方法的错误率结果，还可以表征 Mikulčice 的考古植物发现，这些发现被定义为栽培。