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| Title: | Aksum in Africa |
| Author: | Phillipson, David W. |
| Year: | 1990 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Ethiopian Studies |
| Volume: | 23 |
| Period: | November |
| Pages: | 55-65 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs., ills. |
| Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Northeast Africa |
| Subjects: | archaeology Axum polity history traditional polities History and Exploration History, Archaeology Archaeological sites Aksum (Ethiopia) Cultural property |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/44324722 |
| Abstract: | Archaeology at Aksum has so far concentrated its attention on the monumental architecture of the elite and on evidence for overseas trade. Such research provides a one-sided view of ancient Ethiopian civilization. The present author urges that more attention be given to the local economic base and to the links which bound Aksum to the interior, to the Sudanese lowlands and the rich territories of western and central Ethiopia, since it was Aksum's control over sources of supply, and her near monopoly of the Red Sea exchange network, which was of paramount importance in her rise to power and prosperity. Moreover, archaeological investigation of early animal domestication and crop cultivation in northern Ethiopia is of far wider significance than as an illustration of the economic basis of the Aksumite State alone, since Ethiopia was a major centre of plant domestication and there are linguistic indications that the practices of plant cultivation and animal domestication there may be of very great antiquity. Bibliogr. |
