Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC- AD 1300 /

Foundations of an African civilisation : Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC- AD 1300 /

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Main Author: Phillipson, D. W. (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2012.

Series: Eastern African studies (London, England)

Subjects:

Āksum (Ethiopia) > Antiquities.
Aksum (Kingdom) > Civilization.
Ethiopia > History > To 1490.

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Call Number: DT390 .A88 P45 2012

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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Before Aksum : The northern Horn 3000 years ago ; The first millennium BC
  • pt. 2. The Kingdom of Aksum : Aksumite civilisation: an introductory summary ; Aksumite languages and literacy ; Some written sources relating to Aksumite civilisation ; The emergence and expansion of the Aksumite state ; Aksumite kingship and politics ; Aksumite religion ; Cultivation and herding, food and drink ; Urbanism, architecture and non-funerary monuments ; Aksumite burials ; Aksumite technology and material culture ; Aksumite coinage ; Foreign contacts of the Aksumite state ; Decline and transformation of the Aksumite state
  • pt. 3. After Aksum : The Zagwe dynasty
  • The future of the past in the northern Horn.