Abstract
Faced with the growing success of discourses that make climate change the driving force behind the successes and (above all) the failures of ancient societies, we need to give a voice to the actors - humans and non-humansalike - of historical change. Through a series of case studies, we will see how, over the millennia, Mesopotamian societies have learned to cope with changing environmental situations, with varying degrees of success, and how these changes may (or may not) have played a role in the history of the human groups and socio-political modes of organization that have succeeded one another within the Mesopotamian space.
