The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of African Archaeology

Author: Peter Mitchell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 1077

ISBN-13: 0199569886

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This Handbook provides a comprehensive 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. It includes a mixture of key methodological and theoretical issues and debates and situates the subject's contemporary practice.


Aksum

Aksum

Author: Joseph W. Michels

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1532022123

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This work is an abridged version of the book CHANGING SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE AKSUM-YEHA REGION OF ETHIOPIA: 700 BCAD 850 written by the author and published in 2005 in the Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Series by British Archaeological Reports (BAR) of Oxford, United Kingdom. Most of the books methodological and technical sections have been removed in order for the reader to more easily focus on the main theme of the work, namely how the study of the settlement history of a single region can reveal the ways in which a society adapts to changing conditions over the course of a thousand years. From a scatter of simple hamlets and villages, Ancient Aksum evolved into a formidable mercantile state that, for a time, controlled much of the trade at the southern end of the Red Sea. Then, as circumstances changed, Aksum went into decline, its urban center contracting then disappearing. The historical trajectory of Aksum as discussed in this work offers a textbook example of political change: from egalitarian hamlets, the Aksumites organized themselves into an increasingly prominent local chiefdom, then into a kingdom, and eventually into a state.


Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25, 2003

Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg, July 20-25, 2003

Author: Siegbert Uhlig

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1140

ISBN-13: 9783447047999

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The XVth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies took place in Hamburg in July 2003. More than 400 scientists from over 25 countries participated. 130 contributions from the program were selected for this volume. They are mostly written in English and deal on the regions of Ethiopia and Eritrea and cover the span from the 4th Century to the present. The volume is divided into the following chapters: Anthropology (20 Articles), History (25), Arts (10), Literature and Philology (10), Religion (5), Languages and Linguistics (25), Law and Politics (10), Environmental, Economic and Educational Issues (10).


The Archaeology of Ethiopia

The Archaeology of Ethiopia

Author: Niall Finneran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-11-08

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1136755527

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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.


African Civilizations

African Civilizations

Author: Graham Connah

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1107011876

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This new revised edition offers expanded coverage, new illustrations and an extended new list of references.


Berenike 1999/2000

Berenike 1999/2000

Author: Steven E. Sidebotham

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Published: 2007-12-31

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1938770420

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Excavations at Berenike, a Greco-Roman harbor on the Egyptian Red Sea coast, have provided extensive evidence for trade with India, South-Arabia and sub-Saharan Africa. The results of the 1999 and 2000 excavations by the joint mission of the University of Delaware, Leiden University, and UCLA, have been published in a comprehensive report, with specialists' analyses of different object groups and an overview of evidence for the trade route from the Indian perspective. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs, drawings, plans, and a large foldout map of Berenike and Sikait.


2000 Lectures and Memoirs

2000 Lectures and Memoirs

Author: British Academy

Publisher: Proceedings of the British Aca

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9780197262597

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Volume 111 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 17 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.


Historical Archaeology in Africa

Historical Archaeology in Africa

Author: Peter Ridgway Schmidt

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780759109650

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Historical Archaeology in Africa is an inquiry into historical questions that count, proposing different ways of thinking about historical archaeology. Peter Schmidt challenges readers to expand their horizons . Confronting topics of oral traditions, the role of cultural landscapes in social memory, and historical misrepresentations of various cultures, Schmidt calls for a new pathway to an enriched, more nuanced, and more inclusive historical archaeology. Allowing Africa to speak for itself without colonial interpreters, Historical Archaeology in Africa will be of interest not only to historians and archaeologists, but to all concerned with Africa's past and present.


Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology

Encyclopedia of Historical Archaeology

Author: Charles E. Orser Jnr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-11

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 1134608624

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A-Z organised Entries are written by an international team of 127 experts in the field Includes 29 b+w illustrations including 23 half-tones Contains cross references, suggestions for further reading and a comprehensive index