Late Antique Archaeology 2016: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM A.D.

To be held at The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE (inside the Royal Academy), Saturday 8th October 2016

*Regional vegetation histories: overview of the pollen evidence*
1. Western Mediterranean – José Antonio López-Sáez (Madrid), Neil Roberts (Plymouth)
2. Central Mediterranean – Laura Sadori (Rome), Alessia Masi (Rome), Anna Maria Mercuri (Modena), Katerina Kouli (Athens)
3. Eastern Mediterranean – TBC
4. Northern Europe – Jessie Woodbridge (Plymouth), Ralph Fyfe (Plymouth), Neil Roberts (Plymouth)
5. Britain – Stephen Rippon (Exeter), Ralph Fyfe (Plymouth)

*Local and regional case studies: integrating archaeology, history and the environmental sciences*
6. Avkat and Northern Anatolia – John Haldon (Princeton)
7. Sophiana and South Italy – Emanuele Vaccaro (Cambridge), Anna Maria Mercuri (Modena) and Michael MacKinnon (Winnipeg)
8. Sagalassos and South-Western Anatolia – Gert Verstraeten (Leuven), Nils Broothaerts (Leuven), Maarten Van Loo (Leuven)
9. Tabacalera (Asturias) – Leonor Pena Chocarro (Madrid) and others

*Mediterranean thematic surveys*
10. Climatic changes and their impact on the late antique societies: general trends and interregional variability – Neil Roberts (Plymouth), Inga Labuhn (Lund), Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
11. Deforestation and reforestation during the Roman Antiquity – William Harris (Columbia)
12. The late antique rural settlement boom and its environmental impact across the Mediterranean – Alexandra Chavarria (Padua) and Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
13. Land use, social structure and the environment in Late Antiquity – Mark Whittow (Oxford)
14. Environment and the end of Antiquity, or is there a link between the fall of Rome and a major environmental catastrophe? – Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
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