This panel aims to discuss the actual changes, as well as new possibilities, in the sub-discipline of historical anthropology. We wish to examine these transformations in the context of incorporating the multispecies approach in both theory and method. Indeed, reading and interpretation of the historical sources, be they written or oral, from a multispecies perspective has refreshed and enlarged the scope of the history of exploitation and the degradation of landscapes, as well as species interactions. The panel will explore the challenges for such a shift, or broadly, the challenges of a social but non-anthropocentric history of animals and plants, rivers or mountains. Papers addressing historical cases are invited to propose a discussion on the difficulties and/or impossibilities on protagonism, symmetry and polyphony for the multispecies historiography. Reversely, the panel interrogates how new agents destabilise certitudes around permanences in history, as culture or tradition.