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Using Stone Tools: the Evidence from Aksum, Ethiopia

Laurel Phillipson
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In this book the author presents the results of more than ten years of systematic fieldwork and analysis of the stone tool assemblages in the region of Aksum (Ethiopia). The result is a detailed description and interpretation of the different lithic traditions which were incorporated into the local Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite cultural traditions and represented an important component of the ancient polities in the region, providing a much more complicated picture of the social and economic development of these polities than that so far outlined on the basis of the ceramic and architectural evidence. The study is a very important contribution to the archaeology of Aksum (northern Ethiopia) as well as Ethiopian and African archaeology, as it provides scholars with the first exhaustive analysis and interpretation of the stone tools dating to historical time (1st millennium BC – 1st millennium AD) in the region of Aksum. The book, moreover, is a crucial contribution to the cultural resources management in the archaeological area of Aksum insofar as it provides a complete inventory of all assemblages with stone tools in the region. These assemblages are vanishing very quickly because of the fragility of the archaeological deposits and the urban expansion in thearea. Therefore, the descriptions of the sites and their assessments are most likely the last records of this evidence.
  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Archaeological Research at Aksum
  • CHAPTER 2: The Area Surveyed, Acknowledgements, Problems and Approaches
  • CHAPTER 3: Surface Collections and Excavated Assemblages
  • CHAPTER 4: Chronological Summary
  • CHAPTER 5: Technical and Economic Evidence
  • CHAPTER 6: Patterns of Site Distribution and Areas for Future Research
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Plates
  • Monograph Series
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Published: 2009
Publisher: BAR Publishing
Copyright Holder: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407304083 (paperback)
  • 9781407334394 (ebook)
BAR Number: S1926
Subject
  • Lithics / Stone Tools
  • Africa
  • Bronze Age and Iron Age
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