Les fouilles de l'abri sous-roche de Moche Borago (Soddo-Wolayta). Premier bilan

Gutherz, Xavier; Jallot, Luc; Lesur, Joséphine; Pouzolles, Guy; Sordoillet, Dominique

doi:10.3406/ethio.2002.1019

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“…The earliest archaeological research in southwestern Ethiopia to yield ceramic data is that of Bailloud (1959), in which pottery was discovered along with ground-stone hoes, but that material was not dated. However, in the last decade, archaeological research has recovered ceramics that indicate pottery is no older than 2,000 years in this region (e.g., Gutherz et al 2002;Hildebrand and Brandt 2010). The major decorations of these early ceramics include slip, incision, impressions, and either smoothing or polishing (Hildebrand and Brandt 2010).…”

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The Technical Style of Wallaga Pottery Making: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Oromo Potters in Southwest Highland Ethiopia

Wayessa

2011

Afr Archaeol Rev

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The Technical Style of Wallaga Pottery Making: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Oromo Potters in Southwest Highland Ethiopia

Wayessa

2011

Afr Archaeol Rev

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“…It is grown in small areas with terracing, is both drought-and pest-resistant, and has a widespread and probably very ancient presence in food production traditions (Brandt et al 1997;Curtis 2013;Hildebrand 2007). Pastoralism and farming occurred much later in southern Ethiopia than in northern Ethiopia and other regions of eastern Africa as suggested by preliminary excavations at rockshelter and caves in Wolayta (Asmare 2015;Barnett 1999;Gutherz et al 2002;Lesur et al 2007), Kafa , and the Gamo region (Arthur et al 2009. At Kumali rockshelter in Kafa, found extensive quantities of desiccated plant material that date after 1740 BP, which may be wild enset, domesticated enset (Ensete ventricosum), or possibly domesticated banana (Musa spp.…”

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The Transition from Hunting–Gathering to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia

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Over three field seasons between 2007 and 2012, we excavated three caves-Mota, Tuwatey, and Gulo-situated at an average elevation of 2,084 m above sea level in the cool and moist Boreda Gamo Highlands of southwestern Ethiopia. Anthropogenic deposits in these caves date from the Middle to Late Holocene (ca. 6000 to 100 BP) and provide excellent preservation of material culture, fauna, flora, and human skeletal remains from which to investigate changes in technologies and habitat use over the last several thousand years. Here, we present results and interpretations, suggesting ways in which Holocene communities of the Boreda Gamo Highlands

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“…If future work at Kumali, Koka, and other sites produces no ceramics from contexts >2,000 BP, Kafa's earliest pottery can be regarded as contemporaneous with that at Moche Borago~200 km to the east (Gutherz et al 2002). This would suggest that pottery appears several millennia later in SW Ethiopia than in Kenya (8,000 BP), and northern, western, and central Ethiopia (5,000-4,500 BP).…”

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“…Securely dated evidence for early Holocene preceramic "Later Stone Age" huntergatherer-fishers has only been found at Harouruna (Bachechi 2005) and Moche Borago (Gutherz et al 2002) rockshelters in eastern Wolayta, just NW of Lake Abaya in the Ethiopian Rift. Farther NW, in the Gilgel Gibe valley, several surface occurrences and the upper deposits of Liben Bore are attributed to the Early Holocene, as they are characterized by small prismatic bladelet cores, geometric microliths, small scrapers, and the absence of pottery.…”

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“…Ceramics are present from 2,200 BP at Moche Borago, associated with Mode 5 lithics (Gutherz et al 2002). At Akirsa, a small ceramic figurine attributed to cattle from contexts dated to 2,000 BP is, together with undated petroglyphs of humpless cattle, considered the earliest evidence of local herding (Poisblaud 2002).…”

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The Holocene Archaeology of Southwest Ethiopia: New Insights from the Kafa Archaeological Project

2010

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Southwest Ethiopia's cool, moist, and steep highlands differ from other African environments, and may have fostered distinct patterns of Holocene resource use and intensification. Prior to 2004, only a few archaeological projects probed eastern and northern margins of this region. The Kafa Archaeological Project (2004)(2005)(2006)) excavated ten caves and rockshelters in different environments in the heart of southwest Ethiopia to obtain a Holocene chronology and compare it with adjacent regions. At Kumali Rockshelter, middle Holocene deposits show use of a microlithic industry to obtain wild game, and excellent macrobotanical preservation promises to reveal changes in plant use from 4,700 14 C bp to the present. Ceramics and domestic animals appear at Kumali and Koka by~2,000 14 C bp, suggesting herding and pottery making appeared late and contacts with neighboring regions were tenuous. Technologically conservative people continued microlith production and sporadic rockshelter use into the eighteenth century CE. RésuméLe haut plateau escarpé au climat frais et humide du Sud-ouest de l'Éthiopie se distingue des autres environnements africains et a favorisé des schémas variés d'utilisation et d'intensification des ressources Holocènes. Avant 2004, seuls quelques projets archéologiques ont exploré les bords nord et est de cette région. Le Kafa Archaeological Project (2004-2006) a fouillé dix grottes et abris sous roche, situés dans des environnements divers au milieu de cette région pour obtenir une chronologie holocène et la comparer aux régions voisines. Dans

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Les fouilles de l'abri sous-roche de Moche Borago (Soddo-Wolayta). Premier bilan

Cited by 21 publications

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The Technical Style of Wallaga Pottery Making: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Oromo Potters in Southwest Highland Ethiopia

The Technical Style of Wallaga Pottery Making: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Oromo Potters in Southwest Highland Ethiopia

The Transition from Hunting–Gathering to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia

The Holocene Archaeology of Southwest Ethiopia: New Insights from the Kafa Archaeological Project

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