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almahu_9947413543902882
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1 online resource (x, 293 pages) :
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ISBN:
9781846158735 (ebook)
Content:
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 ofChristian 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 greateremphasis 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.〈BR〉 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, towhich 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 élite 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.〈BR〉 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.〈BR〉〈BR〉 David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa.〈BR〉〈BR〉 Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press〈BR〉〈BR〉
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jan 2016).
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pt. 1. Before Aksum : The northern Horn 3000 years ago ; The first millennium BC -- pt. 2. The Kingdom of Aksum : Aksumite civilisation: an introductory summary ; Aksumite languages and literacy ; Some written sources relating to Aksumite civilisation ; The emergence and expansion of the Aksumite state ; Aksumite kingship and politics ; Aksumite religion ; Cultivation and herding, food and drink ; Urbanism, architecture and non-funerary monuments ; Aksumite burials ; Aksumite technology and material culture ; Aksumite coinage ; Foreign contacts of the Aksumite state ; Decline and transformation of the Aksumite state -- pt. 3. After Aksum : The Zagwe dynasty -- The future of the past in the northern Horn.
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Print version: ISBN 9781847010414
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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