As an ethnography for archaeologists, this book has presented a case study of a small Greek peninsula. Unlike most ethnographies, the primary focus has not been one or more social or cultural institutions but a tangible material element in Methanites' lives – the landscape. Yet landscapes cannot exist separately from the humans who engage with them: almost all landscapes have been modified in some way or other by humans. The landscapes of settlement and agriculture in particular are spaces which have been materially structured by human activities. More important, landscapes do not have meaning in and of themselves: it is humans who give them their meanings, which are culturally constructed through the medium of senses and knowledge informed by a person's culture – as encompassed by the opening quotation to this chapter, with which Athanasiou's (1998) book on Methana begins. Without those meanings given to them by human groups, they are merely environments. For this reason, an initial ethnographic focus on the material landscape of Methana led inevitably into areas of Methanites' culture, such as production, reproduction, and the structuring of people's links with other humans and with the supernatural.