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Mifsas Baḥri: a Late Aksumite Frontier Community in the Mountains of Southern Tigray: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 2013–16
Michela Gaudiello and Paul A. Yule
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This book describes the broad network of studies which were involved in three years of archaeological research in the southern Tigray (Ethiopia), at the Mifsas Baḥri site. The uniqueness of this work lies in the subject of our research and in the final results. Mifsas Baḥri is the southernmost Late Aksumite (c. 550‒c. 700 CE) site known in Tigray, the ruins of which dominate the amazing landscape of Lake Ḥashenge. The data collected from the excavation, survey, pottery and anthropological analysis, historical and linguistic researches contribute to the knowledge of a region of southern Tigray during the so-called "Ethiopian dark age". This book offers to the scientific community and to scholars involved in the Ethiopian studies new, convincing results and information regarding a region and a period hitherto unknown in the history of ancient Ethiopia.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright
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List of Illustrations and Tables
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List of Fieldwork Participants
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List of Contributors
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Editors’ Foreword
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Foreword Mekelle University
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Abbreviations
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Chapter 1: The Excavation, 2013‒16
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Chapter 2a: Catalogue of the Survey of the Lake Ḥashenge Area, 2014
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Chapter 2b: Survey around the Archaeological Site Mifsas Baḥri, 2014
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Chapter 3a: Archaeological Survey, 2015
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Chapter 3b: Mifsas Baḥri Survey Gazetteer 2015
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Chapter 4: Lake Ḥashenge and Archaeological Sites in 19th Century Cartography – From a Documentation of Local Traditions to Claims of Exactness
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Chapter 5: Brief Description of Scoria from Mifsas Baḥri 001
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Chapter 6a: The Small Finds Mifsas Baḥri Site 001
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Chapter 6b: Small Lithic Finds from Mifsas Baḥri
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Chapter 7a: The Pottery
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Chapter 7b: The Pottery Wares and Typology
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Chapter 8: Human Skeletal Remains 2013–16
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Chapter 9: Architecture and Architectural Sculpture
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Chapter 10: Stratigraphy and Chronology
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Chapter 11: Dialect and Agricultural Terminology in Mifsas Baḥri
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Chapter 12: On the Oral Traditions of Ḥašängä and its Environs: A Preliminary Field Report
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Chapter 13: Conclusions
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Chapter 14: Sources used
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Published: 2017
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407344676 (ebook)
- 9781407315799 (paperback)
BAR Number: S2839
- Christianity / Churches / Monastic
- Agriculture / Farming / Husbandry / Land-use / Irrigation
- Death / Burial / Cemeteries / Tombs
- Excavation / Fieldwork / Survey
- Ceramics and Pottery Studies
- Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Architecture / Domestic and Urban Buildings and Space / Urbanism
- Archaeometry / Scientific Dating
- Africa
- Ethnoarchaeology / Anthropology