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Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300

This book focuses on the pre-Aksumite and Aksumite states of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, their development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. It applies a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis 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 i

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  • "Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African civilization"@en

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  • "This book focuses on the pre-Aksumite and Aksumite states of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, their development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. It applies a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis 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 i"@en
  • ""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 of Christian 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 greater emphasis 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. 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, to which 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. 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."--Publisher's website."@en
  • "This well-illustrated book provides an up-to-date survey of a key period in the history of northern Ethiopia and south-central Eritrea. It is accessible to the general reader, but its comprehensive references and guidance to controversies and research needs will render it invaluable to specialists and students. It considers how the region's literate communities arose and flourished during the last millennium BC, giving rise to the Aksumite civilisation whose achievements and intercontinental significance are increasingly recognised, and which formed an integral but often neglected compone."@en

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  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC- AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilization : Aksum & the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilization : Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilization : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC- AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African Civilisation Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African Civilisation Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300"@en
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum and the northern horn, 1000 BC -AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300"
  • "Foundations of an African civilization : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC - AD 1300"

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