The Archaeology of Ethiopia

by Niall Finneran

Overview

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 obs

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136755514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/08/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Niall Finneran

Table of Contents

List of figures vi

List of tables xiii

Preface xiv

Acknowledgements xix

1 A sense of place: Ethiopia, Africa and the world 1

2 From 'Lucy' to the LSA: technological development from the Pliocene to the mid-Holocene period 33

3 From hunting to herding and plant cultivation: beyond ecological determinism and neo-evolutionary trajectories 67

4 Afro-Arabians? Emergent social complexity in the northern highlands in the first millennium BC 109

5 Aksum 146

6 After Aksum: medieval and post-medieval archaeology 207

7 Epilogue: the past in the present 265

Bibliography 273

Index 303