ROME -- Cambridge University Archaeology Professor Graeme Barker, is holding a discussion on the challenges facing modern environmental archaeology at the American University of Rome.

 The event inaugurates the 2016 convention for the Association of Environmental Archeology, held from Sept. 30 to Oct. 1.

 Barker, Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, who is widely recognised for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya and his speciality ‘human landscape archaeology’, is set to present his ideas upon the interaction between man and his surroundings in an English interview.

 The professor is particularly interested in how human societies of the past have shaped the environment in which they inhabited, and whether or not we can learn from these adaptations and developments for the future.

 Compiled of various thematic questions, involving democratic growth, intensification of agriculture and responses to climate change, the talk challenges a range of environmental, political and cultural issues that face today’s planet.

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