Archeobotanica dell'Adriatico in età romana: stato dell'arte

The shores of the Adriatic Sea since Prehistory have been a crossroads of cultural, human and commercial exchanges between West and East and in all this the Roman civilization could not have failed to exploit this internal "canal" that united the shores of the Italian and Balkan peninsula. The Adriatic Sea is also unique from an environmental and climatic point of view, with marine and wind currents coming from Africa and the Balkans meeting and colliding, resulting in rather intense meteorological cycles. All this was decisive in the history of the Adriatic and its coasts, during the Roman period; how much natural environmental conditions have influenced anthropic ones and vice versa; through a review of paleoenvironmental and archaeobotanical studies we will try to define the impact that Romanization had on the territories and environments along the two western and eastern shores of the Adriatic.