Mediterranean Landscape Archaeology: Marginality and the Culture–Nature ‘Divide’

Abstract

The so-called culture–nature divide manifests itself in the ways in which many landscape archaeologists and historians write about landscape. This divide is in part a consequence of the differences between the ‘scientific’ method and the approaches adopted by cultural landscape archaeologists and historians. In Mediterranean landscape archaeology, this split is characterised by the ways in which the history of erosion and landscape degradation are researched and written about. Employing ideas derived from Actor-Network Theory, two case studies from the south of France illustrate the potential for more nuanced interpretations of how different groups of people may have perceived and responded to erosion within landscape types that are often classified as ‘marginal’ in one sense or another.

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