Dr Anna Perdibon visited the The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion on the 16th October 2019, to give a paper entitled "Sacred Trees and Tree Persons in Ancient Mesopotamia". After the seminar, Jessica Hughes and Anna Perdibon were joined by Graham Harvey and Shirley Elderfield to record an audio discussion about trees, both ancient and modern. The discussion also features the voice of Anne Patterson, on the role of trees in contemporary Druidism.

Programme Structure and Timecodes

0.00 Introduction

0.45 Anna Perdibon on ancient Mesopotamian geography, religion and trees

5.22 Shirley Elderfield on the site of Dodona and its sacred oak tree

9.15 Graham Harvey on trees in contemporary paganisms and different indigenous communities

13.13 Anna Perdibon on Gilgamesh and the Cedar Forest

15.52 Anne Patterson on the role of trees in contemporary Druidism

19.54 Studio responses to Anne Patterson

25.40 Graham Harvey on a piece of ancient bog oak from the Somerset Levels

27.04 Shirley Elderfield on the oak tree planted at Dodona in the twentieth century

28.35 Anna Perdibon on the olive trees in Jerusalem, and a nomadic bonsai

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