NDLI: Reconsidering Yeha, c. 800

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Author	Fattovich, Rodolfo
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Yeha, in Tigray, is the most impressive site with evidence for South Arabian influence dating to the first millennium BC in the northern Horn of Africa (Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The evidence from this site was used to identify a ‘Pre-Aksumite’ or ‘Ethiopian-Sabean’ Period (mid-first millennium BC) when an early Afro-Arabian state apparently arose in the region. A ‘Pre-Aksumite Culture’, characterised by South Arabian elements, was also suggested as a distinctive archaeological culture in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. However, recent fieldwork in these countries suggests that a Pre-Aksumite culture actually did not exist and South Arabian features were restricted to a few sites, which were scattered in a mosaic of different archaeological cultures in the first millennium BC. This hypothesis is tested through a comparison between the ceramics from Yeha and those from Matara and other sites of the first millennium BC in Tigray and Eritrea.Yeha (Tigray) est le site du premier millénaire av. J.-C. le plus remarquable du nord de la Corne de l’Afrique (Erythrée et Ethiopie du nord) en matière d’influences sud-arabiques. Les données de ce site ont été utilisées pour définir une période ‘préaksoumite’ ou ‘éthiosabéenne’ (datant du milieu du premier millénaire av. J.-C.), marquée par l’apparente émergence d’un état afro-arabique dans la région. On a aussi suggéré l’existence d’une culture archéologique ‘pré-aksoumite’ en Ethiopie du nord et en Erythrée, caracterisée par la présence d’éléments sud-arabiques. Cependant, des nouvelles recherches mettent maintenant en doute l’existence de cette ‘culture pré-aksoumite’ et suggèrent que les éléments sudarabiques se limitent à quelques sites du premier millénaire av. J.-C. répartis en une mosaïque de différentes cultures archéologiques. Cette hypothèse est ici confrontée aux résultats d’une comparaison systématique entre les poteries de Yeha, Matara, et d’autres sites du Tigray et d’Erythrée datant du premier millénaire av. J.-C.
Starting Page	275
Ending Page	290
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02630338
Journal	African Archaeological Review
Volume Number	26
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729842
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-01-28
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Archaeology Ethiopia Eritrea Pre-Aksumite period Early state development Anthropology Regional and Cultural Studies
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Archeology Archeology (arts and humanities)

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