The corrupting sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the mediterranean region over some 3000 years it advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong this is the first major work since braudels the mediterranean to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time scale the authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory antiquity . The corrupting sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the mediterranean region over some 3000 years it advocates a novel analysis of this relationship in terms of microecologies and the often extensive networks to which they belong this is the first major work since braudels the mediterranean to address the problems of studying the area as a whole and on a long time scale the authors emphasize the value of comparison between prehistory antiquity . The corrupting sea a study of mediterranean history april 2001 american journal of archaeology 1052334 doi 102307 507280 authors arthur bernard knapp university of glasgow peregrine . The corrupting sea is a history of the relationship between people and their environments in the mediterranean region over some 3000 years it offers a novel analysis of this relationship in terms