From Colonisation to Globalisation: Species Movements in Human History

Ideas emerging from two European Research Council-funded projects, the Sealinks Project and the Palaeodeserts Project, have led to a spin off conference.  The conference “From Colonisation to Globalisation: Species Movements in Human History” will explore the role played by humans in moving various species around the globe from the Palaeolithic era through to historical times.  The conference, which is funded and organised by the Fyssen Foundation, will bring archaeologists, geneticists, geographers, biologists, historians and others to Paris for a 3-day closed conference in Paris in October 2013.