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- Title
Lithic Evidence for the Peopling of Northern Ethiopia.
- Authors
Phillipson, Laurel
- Abstract
A comparative study of lithic assemblages from the Gash Delta lowlands of eastern Sudan and from Seglamen in the highlands of northern Ethiopia is used to investigate the origins of the pre-Aksumite people and their anonymous predecessors. Multiple similarities in knapping strategies and in lithic tool types support the hypothesis of a south-eastward movement of agro-pastoralists into the highlands of the Tigray Plateau, probably starting in the fifth millennium BC.
- Subjects
KASSALA (Sudan); TIGRAY Kifle Hager (Ethiopia); AKSUM (Ethiopia); ANALYSIS of stone implements; GASH civilization; FLINTKNAPPING
- Publication
African Archaeological Review, 2017, Vol 34, Issue 2, p177
- ISSN
0263-0338
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10437-017-9250-6