The Archaeology of EthiopiaThis book provides the first truly comprehensive multi-period study of the archaeology of Ethiopia, surveying the country's history, detailing the discoveries from the late Stone Age, including the famous 'Lucy' and moving onto the emergence of food production, prehistoric rock art and an analysis of the increasing social complexity that can be observed from the remains of the first nucleated settlements. The author then discusses the Aksumite empire, the emergence of Christianity in the Middle Ages and Ethiopia's encounters with the west, leading up to the feudal Ethiopia of the twentieth century and the present day. This book is an excellent and very readable story of the rich heritage of this very misunderstood country. |
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Contents
Ethiopia Africa and the world
| 1 |
technological development from the Pliocene to the midHolocene period
| 33 |
beyond ecological determinism and neoevolutionary trajectories
| 67 |
4 AfroArabians? Emergent social complexity in the northern highlands in the first millennium bc
| 109 |
5 Aksum
| 146 |
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Addis Adulis African Aksum Aksumite period Anqqer Baahti appears archaeological evidence architecture associated Beta Giyorgis Beta Israel Brandt cattle centre century ceramics chapter Christian chronological church Clark complex Contenson context crop Debre Damo depictions distinctive DMT polity earliest early eastern economic Egyptian elite emergence emphasise Eritrea Ethiopian excavated Fattovich Figure Finneran Francis Anfray funerary Gobedra Gudit Harar Hawelti historical Holocene Horn of Africa identity ideological imply important industry inscriptions Islam king Lake Lake Tana Lalibela landscape lithic Maryam Matara material culture medieval metres Michael Harlow microlithic Middle Awash mode monastery monastic Munro-Hay obsidian ofthe Pankhurst pastoralist phase Phillipson 2000 plateau political pottery pre-Aksumite recognised Red Sea region rock art rock-shelter Rodolfo Fattovich royal scrapers Sellassie Sergew settlement social memory sources South Arabian southern stela stone structure suggest symbolic temple Tigray Tihamah tion tomb tradition whilst wider Yeha Zagwe
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Archaeology of Ethiopia |
| Author | Niall Finneran |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Routledge, 2013 |
| ISBN | 1136755527, 9781136755521 |
| Length | 336 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Archaeology |
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