The Archaeology Of Ethiopia

Author : Niall Finneran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136755521

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The Archaeology of Ethiopia by Niall Finneran Pdf

This 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.

Author : Victor M. Fernández,Jorge De Torres,Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner,Carlos Cañete
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004324695

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The Archaeology of the Jesuit Missions in Ethiopia (1557–1632) by Victor M. Fernández,Jorge De Torres,Andreu Martínez d'Alòs-Moner,Carlos Cañete Pdf

This book presents an archaeological and architectonic study of the 17th century Jesuit constructions in Ethiopia, which played an important role in the missionary activity. Its comprehensive study gathers and preserves the splendor of these endangered ruins for future generations.

Author : D. W. Phillipson,Jacqueline Sharon Phillips,Ayele Tarekegn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051810854

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Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7 by D. W. Phillipson,Jacqueline Sharon Phillips,Ayele Tarekegn Pdf

This two-volume work provides a detailed account of five seasons' archaeological research at Aksum, which Dr Phillipson directed on behalf of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, supported by a major research grant from the Society of Antiquaries. Aksum was, during the first seven centuries AD, the capital of a major state, centred on the highlands of northern Ethiopia, Eritrea, which exercised a powerful influence on international trade. Christianity was adopted in the 4th century and Aksum played a vitally important role in the rise of Ethiopian civilisation. The research here described was designed to provide a comprehensive view of ancient Aksum, including aspects which had received little attention. Dr Phillipson and his colleagues describe royal tombs and commoner graves, domestic economy and international trade, monumental architecture and farming settlements, finely carved ivory and flaked stone tools. A secure chronological framework is provided and the whole picture is set in its Ethiopian, African and international context.

Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : UOM:39015062579753

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Aksum by D. W. Phillipson Pdf

Author : Peter Ridgway Schmidt,Seyoum Y. Hameso,Matthew C. Curtis,Mohammed Hassen,Zelalem Teka
Publisher : Red Sea Press(NJ)
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015073886502

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The Archaeology of Ancient Eritrea by Peter Ridgway Schmidt,Seyoum Y. Hameso,Matthew C. Curtis,Mohammed Hassen,Zelalem Teka Pdf

This is a collection of essays exploring the contradicting paradigms of oppression and liberation in Ethiopia.

Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847010889

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Foundations of an African Civilization by D. W. Phillipson Pdf

"Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia's past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full. The last millennium BC is seen as a time when northern Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea were inhabited by farming peoples whose ancestry may be traced far back into the local 'Late Stone Age'. Colonisation from southern Arabia, to which defining importance has been attached by earlier researchers, is now seen to have been brief in duration and small in scale, its effects largely restricted to ľite sections of the community. Re-consideration of inscriptions shows the need to abandon the established belief in a single 'Pre-Aksumite' state. New evidence for the rise of Aksum during the last centuries BC is critically evaluated. Finally, new chronological precision is provided for the decline of Aksum and the transfer of centralised political authority to more southerly regions. A new study of the ancient churches - both built and rock-hewn - which survive from this poorly-understood period emphasises once again a strong degree of continuity across periods that were previously regarded as distinct."--Publisher's website.

Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : UOM:39015051911348

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Archaeology at Aksum, Ethiopia, 1993-7 by D. W. Phillipson Pdf

Author : Matthew W. Betts,M. Gabriel Hrynick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487587963

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The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast by Matthew W. Betts,M. Gabriel Hrynick Pdf

A notable contribution to North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the Canadian Atlantic provinces, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and Maine. Beginning with the earliest Indigenous occupation of the area, this book presents a cultural overview of the Atlantic Northeast, and weaves together the histories of the Indigenous peoples whose traditional lands make up this territory, including the Innu, Beothuk, Inuit, and numerous Wabanaki bands and tribes. Emphasizing historical connection and cultural continuity, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast tracks the development of the earliest peoples in this area as they responded to climate and ecosystem change by transforming their glacier-edge way of life to one on the water’s edge, becoming one of the most successful and longstanding marine-oriented cultures in North America. Supported by more than a hundred illustrations and maps documenting the archaeological legacy, as well as discussions of unanswered questions intended to spur debate, this comprehensive text is ideal for students, researchers, professional archaeologists, and anyone interested in the history of this region.

Author : Tertia Barnett
Publisher : BAR International Series
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCSC:32106019254934

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The Emergence of Food Production in Ethiopia by Tertia Barnett Pdf

Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 45 Series editor: John Alexander

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521657024

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The Archaeology of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa by Timothy Insoll Pdf

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Author : D. W. Phillipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015042114291

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Ancient Ethiopia by D. W. Phillipson Pdf

During the first seven centuries AD there arose at Aksum in the highlands of northern Ethiopia, a unique African culture which has been described as the last of the great civilizations of antiquity to be revealed to modern knowledge. Although its monuments have long been known, their full significance has only recently been recognized. Ancient Aksum maintained a wide-ranging international trade and produced unparalleled coinage in gold, silver and copper. Its kings adopted Christianity in the 4th century AD and the Christian civilization of the Ethiopian highlands traces its origins to Aksumite roots. This text, based on the author's field research, presents an illustrated account of Aksumite civilization of the Ethiopian highlands, tracing its origins to Aksumite roots.

Author : John Wood Arthur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000111083543

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Living with Pottery by John Wood Arthur Pdf

Based on John Arthur's extensive fieldwork, this study sheds light on some of the puzzles common to archaeology in any region and offers insight on markers for pottery-producing and nonproducing villages and socioeconomic variability.

Author : Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191626142

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The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology by Peter Mitchell,Paul Lane Pdf

Africa has the longest and arguably the most diverse archaeological record of any of the continents. It is where the human lineage first evolved and from where Homo sapiens spread across the rest of the world. Later, it witnessed novel experiments in food-production and unique trajectories to urbanism and the organisation of large communities that were not always structured along strictly hierarchical lines. Millennia of engagement with societies in other parts of the world confirm Africa's active participation in the construction of the modern world, while the richness of its history, ethnography, and linguistics provide unusually powerful opportunities for constructing interdisciplinary narratives of Africa's past. This Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of African archaeology, covering the entirety of the continent's past from the beginnings of human evolution to the archaeological legacy of European colonialism. As well as covering almost all periods and regions of the continent, it includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates, and situates the subject's contemporary practice within the discipline's history and the infrastructural challenges now facing its practitioners. Bringing together essays on all these themes from over seventy contributors, many of them living and working in Africa, it offers a highly accessible, contemporary account of the subject for use by scholars and students of not only archaeology, but also history, anthropology, and other disciplines.

Author : John G. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : OCLC:1297013636

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Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John G. Jackson Pdf

Author : Laurel Phillipson
Publisher : British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080732236

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Using Stone Tools by Laurel Phillipson Pdf

With an introduction by Professor Rodolfo Fattovich. Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 77 Series Editors: John Alexander, Laurence Smith and Timothy Insoll.