Within this variety of landscapes and narratives, my photographic exploration generated a collection fragments and traces of past and present human activities. The approach followed Michel Foucault’s thought that “archaeology is much more willing than the history of ideas to speak of discontinuities, ruptures, gaps, entirely new forms of positivity, and of sudden redistributions.”[1] Relating with dereliction, void, and uselessness, many of these traces are symptomatic of the territory’s history. At various points, the ridgeline matches or crisscrosses the demarcation lines of fighting from the 19th and 20th century wars. As Nabil Beyhum reminds, “the first demarcation line that Lebanon has known separated the Druze caïmacamat [district] from the Maronite caïmacamat. This line, that follows the path of the Damascus road [on the Southern side of the valley], was supposed to separate the two rival communities in the control of the rural space.”[2] Though, conflicts are not the only factors affecting the land. Economic and demographic growth and decline are not less present.