Calcium carbonate (CACO3) is one of the most widespread compounds in the mineral kingdom and constitutes, in whole or in part, a great variety of rock types. In the south of Puglia, an area affected by the geological phenomenon of karst phenomena, one can read how man has exploited the natural elements to his economic and cultural advantage over the course of the infinite history of the formation of the landscape. The morphology of the area, the slow working of the waters which, penetrating deeply, shape the rock making it extremely easily extractable, have favored the emergence of numerous quarries for the retrieval of materials used in local construction. The territory is dotted with a sort of negative landscape that is partly abandoned due to the depletion of raw materials and the introduction of more technologically performing materials. All the elements that constitute the lowest common denominator of the Anthropocene are revealed: human needs, intensive exploitation of natural elements, perpetual transformation of the landscape. However, where abandonment is definitive, nature returns to reclaim its space with stubbornness, regardless of the wounds inflicted by human settlements.