Photo of stelae at Aksum, Ethiopia by Matthew C. Curtis (2008). Copyright © Matthew C. Curtis. Map Credit: Google Maps.
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Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies
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Ethiopian-Eritrean studies: a bibliography on society and history, 2010-2015
Ethiopian Ministry of Culture's Ethiopian World Heritage Sites page
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British Museum's African Rock Art Image Project - Ethiopia
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News, Media, and Blogs
An Inside Look Into Studying Aksumite Archaeology in Ethiopia from Habits of a Travelling Archaeologist
Bayira, an ancient Ethiopian skeleton provides the earliest African genome - American Anthropological Association
CNN Inside Africa Video Story Concerning Archaeology of Tigray
Ethiopia's Enduring Cultural Heritage from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
From a very old skeleton, new insights on ancient migrations - National Science Foundation Discovery
Joseph Rosendo's Travel Scope - Northern Ethiopia: Ancient History and Spiritual Present
Lost Kingdoms of Africa - Ethiopia film page from BBC
Monumental Architecture and Stelae of the Aksumite Empire from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
PBS Wonders of the African World - The Holy Land
The Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Through the Horn and Across the Rift
Yonatan Sahle lecture "The African Origins of Human Intelligence" on YouTube
Links to Recently Published (2014-2016) Scholarly Journal Articles Concerning Archaeology and Material Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia
2016
An ethnographic experiment of endscraper curation rate among hadiya hideworkers, ethiopia. Yonatan Sahle and Agazi Negash. 2016. Lithic Technology 41(2):154-163.
Dynamics and driving forces of agricultural landscapes in Southern Ethiopia – a case study of the Chencha and Arbaminch areas. Engdawork Assefaab and Hans-Rudolf Bork. 2016. Journal of Land Use Science 11(3):278-293.
Dynamics of the Settlement Pattern in the Aksum Area (800-400 Bc). an ABM Preliminary Approach. Martina Graniglia, Gilda Ferrandino, Antonella Palomba, Luisa Sernicola, Giuseppe Zollo, Andrea D'Andrea, Rodolfo Fattovich, & Andrea Manzo. 2016. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, edited by Stefano Campana, Roberto Scopigno, Gabriella Carpentiero, & Marianna Cirillo, pages 473-478. Oxford, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
Early Evidence for Domestic Chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) in the Horn of Africa. H. S. Woldekiros & A. C. D'Andrea. 2016. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2540
I have to Resemble my Ancestors through Modification of Midline Diastema": An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Dental Modification among Karrayyu Oromo, Central Ethiopia. Abdi Aseffaa, Bula Sirika Wayessab, & Temesgen Burkac. 2016. Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Experimental Studies 8(1):57-68. DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2016.1150624.
Preliminary Characterization of Pottery by Cathodoluminescence and SEM-EDX Analyses: An Example from the Yeha Region (Ethiopia). C. Weiss , M. Köter, & S. Japp. 2016. Archaeometry 58(2):239-254. DOI:10.1111/arcm.12165.
The Shay Culture of Ethiopia (Tenth to Fourteenth Century ad): "Pagans" in the Time of Christians and Muslims. François-Xavier Fauvelle and Bertrand Poissonnier. 2016. African Archaeological Review 33(1):61-74.
2015
Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa. M Gallego Llorente, ER Jones, A Eriksson, V Siska, KW Arthur, JW Arthur, MC Curtis, JT Stock, M Coltorti, P Pieruccini, S Stretton, F Brock, T Higham, Y Park, M Hofreiter, DG Bradley, J Bhak, R Pinhasi, A Manica. 2015. Science 350(6262):820-822. DOI:10.1126/science.aad2879.
Classification and Analysis of Pot Sherds from Dunjame, East Gojjam, Ethiopia. Tesfaye Wondifraw & Alemseged Beldados. 2015. Nyame Akuma 83.
Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Verena Foerster, Ralf Volgelsang, Annett Junginger, Asfawossen Asratd, Henry F. Lamb, Frank Schaebitz, & Martin H. Trautha. 2015. Quaternary Science Reviews 129:333-340. DOI: 10.1016/jquascirev.2015.10.026.
Ethnoarchaeological Study of Brewing Technology in Wallaga Region of Western Oromia, Ethiopia. B.S. Wayessa, D. Lyons & B. Kooyman. 2015. Journal of African Archaeology 13(1):99-114. DOI: 10.3213/2191-5784-10268.
Holocene Supra-Regional Environmental Changes as Trigger for Major Socio-Cultural Processes in Northeastern Africa and the Sahara. Maria Carmela Gatto & Andrea Zerboni. 2015. African Archaeological Review 32:301–333.
Landscapes of State Formation: Geospatial Analysis of Aksumite Settlement Patterns (Ethiopia). Michael J. Harrower and A. Catherine D'Andrea. African Archaeological Review 31: 513-541. DOI 10.1007/s10437-014-9165-4.
Mursi ox modication in the Lower Omo Valley and the interpretation of cattle rock art in Ethiopia. Timothy Insoll, Timothy Clack, & Olirege Rege. 2015. Antiquity 89(343):91 - 105. DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2014.31.
"Say let it be spared from eyes for a ware cannot survive eyes." Personification of post among Oromo of Wallagga, Ethiopia. Bula Sirika Wayessa. 2015. Journal of Social Archaeology 15(3):387–407. DOI: 10.1177/1469605315589021
The Site of Medogwe (Axum): New Evidence from Archaeological Surveys. Diego Capra. 2015. Nyame Akuma 84.
2014
A new chrono-cultural marker for the early Middle Stone Age in Ethiopia: The tranchet blow process on convergent tools from Gademota and Kulkuletti sites. Katja Douze. 2014. Quaternary International 343:40-52. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.10.018.
Acheulean technological behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene landscape of Mieso (East-Central Ethiopia). Ignacio de la Toree, Rafael Morab, Adrian Arroyo, Alfonso Benito-Calvo. 2014. Journal of Human Evolution 76:1-25. DOI:10.1016/j.hevol.2014.06.008.
An Ancient Potter's Wheel from Beta Giyorgis, Axum, Ethiopia. Laurel Phillipson & Guish Assefa Aregay. 2014. Nyame Akuma 81.
Archaeological Survey and Test Excavations, Harari Regional State, Ethiopia, July-August 2014. A preliminary FieldWork Report. Timothy Insoll, Habtamu Tesfaye, & Malik Saako Mahmoud. 2014. Nyame Akuma 82.
Book review of An Archaeology of Resistance: Materiality and Time in an African Borderland (A. Gonzalez-Ruibal, 2014, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers). Jonathan R. Walz. 2014. Journal of African Archaeology 12(2):237-239. DOI:10.3213/2191-5784-10257.
Book review of Foundations of an African civilisation: Aksum and the northern Horn 1000 BC - AD 1300 by David W. Phillipson. Matthew C. Curtis. 2014. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(1):119-122. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2013.874666.
Book review of Le site de Dongour Axoum, Ethiopie: recherches archéologiques by Francis Anfray (with a contribution by Eric Godet). Yohannes Gebreselassie. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(2):277-279. DOI:10.1080/0067270X.2014.904074.
Buried soils in the context of geoarchaeological research—two examples from Germany and Ethiopia. Dana Pietsch & Peter Kühn. 2014. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6. DOI:10.1007/s12520-014-0180-9
Changing environments and movements through transitions: Paleoanthropological and Prehistorical Research in Ethiopia: A Tribute to Prof. Mohammed Umer. Katja Douze, Asfawossen Asrat, & David Pleurdeau. 2014. Quaternary International 343:1-4. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.031
Chronological and behavioral contexts of the earliest middle stone age in the gademotta formation, main ethiopian rift. Yonatan Sahle, Leah E. Morgan, David R. Braun, Balemwal Atnafu, & W. Karl Hutchings, W.K. 2014. Quaternary International 331:6-19. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.03.010.
Churches Built in the Caves of Lasta (Wälo Province, Ethiopia): A Chronology. Michael Gervers. 2014. Aethiopica 17:25-64.
Culinary Crafts and Foods in Southwestern Ethiopia: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gamo Groundstones and Pottery. John W. Arthur. 2014. African Archaeological Review 31(2):131-168. DOI:10.1007/s10437-014-9148-5.
Cultural change or continuity in the late MSA/Early LSA of southeastern Ethiopia? The Site of Goda Buticha, Dire Dawa area. David Pieurdeau, Erella Hovers, Zelalem Assefa, Asfawossen Asrat, Osbjorn Pearson, Jean-Jacques Bahain, & Yin Man Lam. 2014 Quaternary International 343:117-135. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.001.
Dating beeswax pictograms from Gode Roriso in Ethiopia. Pierluigi Rosina, Hugo Gomes, George H. Nash, & Tadele Solomon. 2014. Journal of Archaeological Science 49:206-212. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2014.05.013.
Expanding the research parameters of geoarchaeology: case studies from Aksum in Ethiopia and Haryana in India. Charles French, Federica Sulas, Cameron Petrie. 2014. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 6. DOI:10.1007/s12520-014-0186-3.
Garba III (Melka Kunture, Ethiopia): a MSA site with archaic Homo sapiens remains revisited. Margherita Mussi, Flavio Altamura, Roberto Macchiarelli, Rita T. Melis, & Enza E. Spinapolice. 2014. Quaternary International 343:28-39. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.08.028
Garba XIII (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia): A new Acheulean site of the late Lower Pleistocene. Rosalia Gallotti ,Jean-Paul Raynal, Denis Geraads, & Margherita Mussi. 2014. Quaternary International 343:17-27. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.04.039
Landscapes of State Formation: Geospatial Analysis of Aksumite Settlement Patterns (Ethiopia). Michael J. Harrower & A. Catherine D'Andrea. 2014. African Archaeological Review 31(3):513–541.
Late hunters of western Ethiopia: the sites of Ajilak (Gambela), c. AD 1000-1200. Alfredo Gonzáez-Ruibal, Carlos Marín Suárez, Manuel Sánchez-Elipe, Joséhine Lesur, & Candela Martínez Barrio. 2014. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(1):64-101.
Late Stone Age variability in the Main Ethiopian Rift: New data from the Bulbula River, Ziway-Shala basin. Clément Ménard, François Bon, Asamerew Dessie, Laurent Bruxelles, Katja Douze, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Lamya Khalidi, Joséphine Lesur, & Romain Mensan. 2014. Quaternary International 343:53-68. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.019.
Magnetostratigraphic study of the Melka Kunture archaeological site (Ethiopia) and its chronological implications. Endale Tamrat, Nicolas Thouveny, Maurice Taieb, & J.P. Brugal. 2014. Quaternary International 343:5-16.DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.030
Microliths in the Middle and Later Stone Age of eastern Africa: New data from Porc-Epic and Goda Buticha cave sites, Ethiopia. Alice Leplongeon. 2014. Quaternary International 343:100-116. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.002.
Perceptions of Consumption: Constituting Potters, Farmers and Blacksmiths in the Culinary Continuum in Eastern Tigray, Northern Highland Ethiopia. Diane Lyons. 2014. African Archaeological Review 31(2):169-201.
Pottery uniformity in a stratified society: An ethnoarchaeological perspective from the Gamo of southwest Ethiopia. John W. Arthur. 2014. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 35:106-116.
Snakes and Sacrifices: Tentative Insights into the Pre-Christian Ethiopian Religion. Andrea Manzo. 2014. Aethiopica 17:7-24.
Survey and explorations of caves in southeastern Ethiopia: Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age archaeology and Holocene rock art. Zelalem Assefa, David Pleurdeaub, Frederique Duquesnoy, Erella Hovers, Osbjorn Pearson, Asfawossen Asrat, Constantinos T/Tsion, Yin Man Lam. 2014. Quarternary International 343:136-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2013.07.132.
The advent of herding in the Horn of Africa: New data from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somaliland. Joséphine Lesur, Elisabeth A. Hildebrand, Gedef Abawa, Xavier Gutherz. 2014. Quarternary International 343:148-158. DOI:10.1016/jquaint.2013.11.024.
The chronology of Aksum (Tigrai, Ethiopia): a view from Bieta Giyorgis. Kathryn A. Bard, Rodolfo Fattovich, Andrea Manzo, and Cinzia Perlingieri. 2014. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 49(3):285-316.
The Lalibela Rock Hewn Site and its Landscape (Ethiopia): An Archaeological Analysis. C. Bosc-Tiessé, M.-L. Derat, L. Bruxelles, F.-X. Fauvelle, Y.Gleize, & R. Mensan. 2014. Journal of African Archaeology 12(2):141-164. DOI: 10.3213/2191-5784-10261.
Stratigraphic and spatial distribution of ochre and ochre processing tools at Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia. Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Francesco d'Errico, & João Zilhão. 2014. Quaternary International 343:85-99. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.3.10.019.
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