1st Edition

The Archaeology of Ethiopia

By Niall Finneran Copyright 2007
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. A sense of place: Ethiopia, Africa and the world, 2. From ‘Lucy’ to the LSA: technological development from the Pliocene to the mid-Holocene period, 3. From hunting to herding and plant cultivation: beyond ecological determinism and neo-evolutionary trajectories, 4. Afro-Arabians? Emergent social complexity in the northern highlands in the first millennium BC, 5. Aksum, 6. After Aksum: medieval and post-medieval archaeology, 7. Epilogue: the past in the present, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Niall Finneran

'The Archaeology of Ethiopia is a welcome contribution to the scholarship of the Horn, given how it also ranges outside of Ethiopia to consider neighbouring regions.' – Peter R. Schmidt, University of Florida, USA