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Gioele Zisa discusses the PlANET Project and the roles of plants in ancient texts and archaeology.

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 pl...

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