Using Stone Tools: The Evidence from Aksum, Ethiopia (BAR S1926 2009)

by Laurel Phillipson, Rodolfo Fattovich (Introduction)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781407304083
Publisher:	British Archaeological Reports
Publication date:	06/03/2010
Series:	Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology Series , #1926
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 11.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Laurel Phillipson with an introduction by Rodolfo Fattovich