Silvana Di Paolo / Gioele Zisa: Decentering the human: A first map of plant culture, value, and agency in the ancient Near East
Federica Giardini: Environmental Humanities: A journey through disciplines
Section 1. Ecological knowledge: Near and distant plant geographies
Jason Leonel Bruce: Memory and permanency: The role of trees during the Late Neolithic of northern Mesopotamia
Ali Binandeh / Silvana Di Paolo / Nicola Macchioni: Revisioning the plant-human interaction in Iran. From microscope to Relational practices: the case of Juglans Regia L.
Licia Romano / Alessandra Celant / Mary Anne TafuriFra / Franco D’Agostino: The lifecycle of the giant reed: Exploring human-plant interactions in Sumer through Abu Tbeirah evidence (3rd millennium BCE, Nasiriyah, Iraq)
Angela Greco: For sugar, wood, and shade. Some considerations on tree plantations in the Ancient Near East during the Early Bronze Age
Section 2. Arboreal imaginaries: Plants as relational beings
Lorenzo Verderame: Palm, king of trees, and the solitary poplar. An essay on tree symbolism in ancient Mesopotamia
Gioele Zisa: Plants as persons: First millennium Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft botany
Marinella Ceravolo: “As you come out from the forest”: The plant body of the gods in the mīs pî ritual
Davide D’Amico: Meeting god under a tree: Literary-historical insights on trees and divine encounters in the Hebrew Bible
Section 3. Vegetality in art: The metonymic imagery
Laura Battini: The reed and its uses according to the archaeological and cuneiform sources
DLshad Aziz Marf: Trees and shrubs in the Zagros Mountains: cuneiform and visual records
Davide Nadali: Disputes, affiliations, and substitutions: Role and function of the human-arboreal relationship in the Ancient Near East
Thomas Staubli: Plants in the iconic symbol system of compositions on stamp seal amulets of the southern Levant: Four case studies
Zohreh Hosseini / Flavia Bartoli: Pasargadae WHS: a balance between culture, nature, and heritage
