Biology

History

Viticulture

Economy

Political science

Economics

Geography

Ethnology

Ecology

Diversity (politics)

Vine

Food science

Wine

Food and History

The diversity of the architectures and the training systems of the grapevine in the world is presented. From that, the training systems which were very probably used in Ancient Greece are extracted, either in the western part which is now in Greece, or in the eastern part which is at present in Turkey. The constraints of the natural environment and of the socio-economical environment explain most of the choices of canopy management. Nevertheless, some essentially historical choices are reproduced for different reasons. Those analyses lead to a new thinking about the relations between the man and the vine, and also to a proposal of strong hypothesises on the genesis of Viticulture in Europe, some of them reinforcing the role of Ancient Greece and of its maritime communications.

Diversité des architectures de vigne dans le monde : contraintes environnementales et facteurs historiques