Organizado por la Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, la American Academy in Rome, la École française de Rome y la Escuela Española de Historia y Arqueología en Roma
This conference addresses one of the most important new directions in classical archaeology – an increasing attention to human environments. The evidence of plant, fauna! and skeletal data provide the possibility of a fuller understanding of the ancient world – of agricultura! techniques, diet, health and disease and environmental change. Through the more intensive collection and analysis of biological data, classical archaeology is transforming from a discipline concerned principally with great monuments to a richer consideration of the relationship between humans and their rnany environrnents.
The conference assembles an international group of specialists – faunal and human skeletal specialists, archaeobotanists and historians. Majar excavations from around the Roman world will be presented in the light of new biological data, with tearns of specialists frorn each site asked to present the whole of their collections, highlighting places where different kinds of evidence yield similar – and divergent – histories. Each team will be further asked to situate their findings in historical context – both of their site and more broadly. Keynote summaries will be offered by archaeologists and historians, reflecting on the significance of indivi- dual findings for the field as a whole.
Miércoles/Wednesday, Nov. 12
9:00-11:30
State of the Field Summaries
9:30-10:00 Marijke Van der Veen, Plants as Archives of Human Behaviour
10:15-10:45 Luca Bondioli, Cosa narrano le ossa ed i denti
11-11:30 Michael MacKinnon, Zooarchaeology and Roman Archaeology: Trekking a Course Forward
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-12:45 Response, William Harris
1pm Break
2:30-5:30pm
Team Site Presentations
2:30 Emanuele Papi, Il caso di Thamusida (Marocco) &nbs