As part of the ‘Living in the World: Choices, Practices and Impacts’ seminar series (ED 395 – École doctorale Espaces, Temps, Cultures), the session on 25 January 2024 will be devoted to the constraints and adaptations required to live in extreme environments with three speakers:

Between aridity and altitude. Human adaptations to extreme environments at the end of the Pleistocene in the Atacama Desert and the south-central Andes, by Katherine Herrera-Godoy (UMR 8068)

Living and nomadising in the cold: analysis of habitat choices among the reindeer-breeding Evens of Yakutia, by Nicolas Bureau (UMR 8068)

The hydraulic system of the first megacities, the case of Larsa at the beginning of the second millennium (southern Iraq), by Régis Vallet (CNRS, UMR 8068) and Lucie Cez (UMR 7041)