The Archeological Landscape of the Shire Region, Western Tigray, Ethiopia

Finneran, Niall

doi:10.3406/ethio.2005.1091

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“…The existence of the wild type in Ethiopia has been described by many researchers only from south and south western Ethiopia (Borrell et al 2019), but the wild type is locally called gunaguna used as ornamental and packaging exists in Tigray regional state, Northern Ethiopia. It has also been proved its existence in the same region since the antiquity perhaps in Aksumite kingdom from the archeological finding in Mai-Adrasha (Niall 2005), which consolidates Ethiopia being the origin of enset. The cultivated enset is a multipurpose crop plant that belongs to the family Musaceae.…”

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Indigenous knowledge and socio-economic Significance of Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheeseman) cultivation and food processing in Sidama, Southern Ethiopia

Egziabher

Kebede

Mengistu

et al. 2020

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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Background: Peoples' culture and natural resources tie has first line survival value in Ethiopia. The drought resistant crop locally called enset supports about 20 million populations. The aim of this research is to investigate the farmer's indigenous knowledge in cultivation, food processing and use value of enset in Sidama, southern Ethiopia. Methods:The research was undertaken in Hula district in March and May 2017. The study area is predominantly enset growing highland ranging from2100-3200 masl. Focus group discussion with key informants and interview with development agents were used to collect data in six kebelles. For enset landraces survey about 13 households backyard were randomly visited and the result was concretized with field observation.Results: A total of 26 landraces were recorded and farmers identify enset landrace using combinations of agro-morphological traits. Utilitarian and cultural values are the main determining factors for the maintenance and conservation of large number of landraces. Majority (80%) of the people are dependent on kocho-bulla and Amicho for food and suckers for income. The farmers' indigenous knowledge in selection and maintenance of enset landrace diversity is powerful; environmental stresses and selection are the main causes for the loss of some landraces.

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Indigenous knowledge and socio-economic Significance of Enset (Ensete ventricosum (Welw.) Cheeseman) cultivation and food processing in Sidama, Southern Ethiopia

Egziabher

Kebede

Mengistu

et al. 2020

Ethnobot. Res. App.

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“…4 Detailed information has not yet been published about first millennium BC material recently discovered in the Shire area of western Tigray and at Gulo Makeda near Adigrat. No description of the 'PreAksumite' ceramics from Inda Sellassie, Tigray, has been published so far (Finneran and Phillips 2003;Phillips 2004;Finneran et al 2005) The culture historical meaning of these three main ceramic traditions is still unknown. They might represent either three variants in pottery manufacture by the same people with a common subsistence economy and settlement pattern (and perhaps language) or three separate populations (see also Curtis 2009).…”

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“…Today, recent fieldwork in Tigray at Inda Sellassie, Aksum and Gulo Makeda and in the Greater Asmara region of Eritrea (Phillipson 2000: 267-379;Phillips 2004;Finneran and Phillips 2003;Finneran et al 2005;Schmidt et al 2008;D'Andrea et al 2008) suggests that a 'Pre-Aksumite Culture' did not exist and that, during the first millennium BC, South Arabian elements characterised a constellation of sites scattered in a mosaic of different archaeological cultures (see also Curtis 2008). In the present paper, I test this hypothesis by re-interpreting a comparison made in the mid-1970s between the ceramics from Yeha (Fattovich 1976a(Fattovich ,b, 1978b(Fattovich , 1981, and those from Matara (Anfray 1966) and other sites of this period in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.…”

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Reconsidering Yeha, c. 800–400 BC

Fattovich

2009

Afr Archaeol Rev

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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.Résumé 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.

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“…Churches of rectangular basilica form with a central longitudinal space also appeared at this time (Phillipson 2009: 50 & 204). Yet archaeologically, medieval Christianity in Ethiopia has remained relatively unexplored (Finneran & Tribe 2004; Finneran 2005, 2007; Phillipson 2009, 2012), with the research emphasis on art history or architecture, or based on historical sources (e.g. Tamrat 1972; Mercier 2001; Lepage & Mercier 2005; Phillipson 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…2019). Although medieval Ethiopian monasticism has not received the same archaeological attention as contemporaneous traditions in Nubia and Egypt (Finneran 2005: 24, 2012a: 252), limited research suggests connectivity rather than isolation. A fragment of embroidered white cloth bearing a red-silk inscription of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mu‘tamid of late ninth-century date, for example, was found in a storeroom in the Debra Dāmo monastery in Tigray.…”

Section: Christianity and The Christian Kingdomsmentioning

confidence: 99%