Gioele talks about the PlANET Project (Plants in the Ancient Near East Texts). How do texts and archaeobotanical evidence combine to explain the economic and functional roles of plants? And what symbolic values did they have? To what extent did they play active roles?

3:27  the PlANET project
5:23  what do we know about plants?
7:57  combining sources
11:13  project goals
13:35  attitudes to environmental change
15:18  interdisciplinary
17:30  identifying plants
21:07  environmental humanities
26:15  plants as actors
29:06  gender studies in plant studies
32:59  BioANE project and PlANET project
33:49  analogical thinking
37:43  current research
40:59  favourite plant

PlANET at La Sapienza 

Music by Ruba Hillawi

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