ISBN10: 1847010415, ISBN13: 9781847010414, [publisher: James Currey] Softcover
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]

James Currey, Date: 2012-08-31. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. Hardcover. Pages unmarked, gentle wear. 2012. James Currey ISBN 1847010415 9781847010414 [US]

Suffolk (UK) / Rochester, NY: James Currey, Date: 2012. BRAND NEW in PERFECT CONDITION. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. A volume from the publisher's Eastern Africa Series. Profusely illustrated. Bound in the original full color pictorial boards. From the publisher: "Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia's past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full. The last millennium BC is seen as a time when northern Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea were inhabited by farming peoples whose ancestry may be traced far back into the local 'Late Stone Age'. Colonisation from ...

ISBN10: 1847010415, ISBN13: 9781847010414, [publisher: James Currey] Hardcover New
[liverpool, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]