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

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

David W. Phillipson

(Eastern Africa series)

James Currey, 2014

  • : pbk.

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Foundations of an African civilization : Aksum and the Northern Horn, 1000 BC-AD 1300

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Originally published: 2012, first published in paperback: 2014

Includes bibliographical references and index

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A single coherent narrative of Aksumite civilisation revealing the roots of medieval Christian Ethiopia. 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 component of the Christian world in Late Antiquity. Aksum is now seen as the ancestor of the region'smedieval Christian kingdom whose churches and associated art continue to attract many visitors to Ethiopia. David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press

目次

Introduction - Part I Before Aksum The northern Horn 3000 years ago The first millennium BC - Part II The Kingdom of Aksum Aksumite civilisation: an introductory summary Aksumite languages & literacy Some written sources relating to Aksumite civilisation The emergence & expansion of the Aksumite state Aksumite kingship & politics Aksumite religion Cultivation & herding, food & drink Urbanism, architecture & non-funerary monuments Aksumite burials Aksumite technology & material culture Aksumite coinage Foreign contacts of the Aksumite state Decline & transformation of the Aksumite state - Part III After Aksum The Zagwe Dynasty - Part IV Epilogue The future of the past in the northern Horn

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