The history of mobility in the ancient Mediterranean has long been limited to that of humans and placed in the context of anthropic environments, to the detriment of animal mobility. The rise of animal studies now leads to their full integration into this history, which is also part of that of the environments and societies that inhabit them. During the first millennium BC, animal species declined under human pressure (lions, elephants) or even disappeared; others arrived from distant worlds, such as the peacock or the zebu, sometimes introduced by humans independently of their will. The movement of herds gave rise to livestock breeding. Wild species migrated spontaneously, such as locusts. Animals thus reveal themselves as subjects and objects of the history of Mediterranean fauna. It is this variety of animal circulations and the way in which they reconfigure the geographical distribution of species in the Mediterranean area that this book studies, proposing the first historical zoogeography of the ancient Mediterranean.
2025, April 11 - Aula di Archeologia Museo dell’Arte Classica
Program
Institutional Greetings
Francesca Romana Stasolla, Direttrice del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità
Marco Mancini, Direttore del Dipartimento di Lettere e Culture moderne
Maria Teresa D'Alessio, Coordinatrice della Scuola di Dottorato in Archeologia
Audrey Bertrand, Direttrice di Studi della Sezione "Antichità" dell’École Française de Rome
Talks by:
Bruno D'Andrea, Università Carlos III de Madrid & Christophe Chandezon, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III
Pietro Li Causi, Università degli Studi di Siena
Maria Cristina Biella, Sapienza Università di Roma
Claudia Minniti, Sapienza Università di Roma
Michel Gras, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei