Ancient Settlement Patterns In The Area Of Aksum (Tigray, Northern Ethiopia) - Ca. 900 Bce-800/850 Ce (2860) (Bar International)

This Englishversion of the author's PhD dissertation, revised and updated in the light ofthe latest research and interpretation, aims to reconstruct thesettlement pattern of the area of Aksum between the early 1stmillennium BCE and the late 1st millennium CE. It describes thefield strategies employed during surveys conducted at Aksum in 2005 and 2006and the procedures that were adopted for the interpretation and chronologicalclassification of the surface archaeological records. It also provides anupdated assessment of the archaeological area of Aksum, including an overviewof the taphonomic processes affecting the preservation of archaeological sites,and presents the results of the statistical and spatial analysis undertaken forthe reconstruction of the ancient settlement pattern and for the investigationof the ancient dynamics of human-environmental interactions in the area.

• | Author: Luisa Sernicola
• | Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 150 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1407314742
• | ISBN-13: 9781407314747