Building in New Lands: Phoenician sustainable architecture and environmental adaptation along the Mediterranean Sea

The #BuildinginNewLands project aims to analyze earthen architecture in order to investigate the complex social and environmental interactions occurring during demographic displacement, and specifically behind the construction processes of migrant communities in the past. By analyzing the impact on the displaced Phoenician and Punic communities and the ecological challenge of thriving in unfamiliar lands, this project aims to shed light on one of the first examples of integrated circular economy and earthen building materials production in the Central and Western Mediterranean. Our main research question is: how Phoenician and Punic communities adapted their architecture and connected circular economies to different and new environmental regions?