Population growth, health and well-being, domestication, agricultural intensification, and responses to climate change are some of the key thematic questions for the archaeology of the twenty-first century. In this lecture, Graeme Barker, the Emeritus Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University, explores the ways in which environmental archaeology has responded to the question of human–environment interactions and how it might contribute to other broader political and cultural issues in the modern world, such as inequality and intolerance.

This event is the keynote lecture for the Association for Environmental Archaeology conference held at the American University of Rome on September 30–October 1, 2016. More information is available at http://www.aea2016rome.com/overview.html.

The lecture will be held in English. You can watch this event live at https://livestream.com/aarome.