Des « terres noires » médiévales urbaines de France aux buttes anthropiques tropicales : l'archéologue en action

Thanks to its general objective, Archaeology depends on Natural Sciences as well as on Anthropology and on the varied scientific domains it understates. Consequently, it has to allocate the definitions of its objects to Nature or Culture or to an unmeasurable mixing of both. The analysis of two different occurrences of joint natural sciences and archaeology work, shows that in fact, the Nature/Culture separation does not intervene while defining the objects but is imposed afterwards in the official publication where, more or less cleaned off from its multiple links, the object appears with a name or termed within a sentence limiting the natural and cultural shares which gathered for this designation.This dichotomy from modern Constitution entails the general issue of choice (realized or difficult) between the natural, cultural or divine origin of these world beings. This choice is philosophical, i.e. political, and if it is legitimately, but insufficiently debated in the West, it raises well beyond, the question of the reasons and justifications of the extension and domination of the so-called Constitution to other societies and soon, to the entire world.