Using Stone Tools: The Evidence from Aksum, Ethiopia

Using Stone Tools: The Evidence from Aksum, Ethiopia
ISBN-10
1407304089
ISBN-13
9781407304083
Category
Social Science / Archaeology
Pages
149
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Archaeopress
Author
Laurel Phillipson

Description

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.

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