Long-term resilience of cultivation systems in Tigrai (Ethiopia): an integrated approach combining archaeobotany, ethnoarchaeology and ecological modelling
Creators: name: Ruiz-Giralt, Abel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Drylands
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Agroecological systems
Millets
Archaeobotany
Ethnoarchaeology
Quantitative archaeology
Horn of Africa

description: This repository contains the PhD thesis entitled: "Long-term resilience of cultivation systems in Tigrai (Ethiopia): an integrated approach combining archaeobotany, ethnoarchaeology and ecological modelling". The present dissertation is proposed as a thesis by articles, which are included throughout the text as specific sections of the dissertation in order to articulate and organise them within the broader context of the thesis. The publications include:



Ruiz-Giralt, A., Beldados, A. 2024. The development of agricultural systems in the Ethiopian highlands (NE Africa): a review of the archaeobotanical evidence. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2316518

D’Andrea, C., Welton, L., Manzo, A., Woldekiros, H., Brandt, S., Beldados, A., Peterson, E., Nixon-Darcus, L., Gaudiello, M., Wood, S. Mekonnen, H., Batiuk, S., Meresa, Y., Ruiz-Giralt, A., Lancelotti, C. Mengistu, A., Johnson, L. 2023. The Pre-Aksumite Period: Indigenous Origins and Development in the Horn of Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 58(3): 329-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2236484

Ruiz-Giralt, A., Bouchaud, C., Salavert, A., D’Andrea, C., Lancelotti, C. 2021. Human-Woodland interactions during the Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite periods in NE Tigray, Ethiopia: insights from the wood charcoal analyses of Mezber and Ona Adi. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30: 713–728. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-021-00825-2

Ruiz-Giralt, A., Nixon-Darcus, L., D’Andrea, C., Meresa, Y., Biagetti, S., Lancelotti, C. 2024. On the verge of domestication: early use of C4 plants in the Horn of Africa. PNAS 120(27): e2300166120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300166120

Beldados, A., Ruiz-Giralt, A., Lancelotti, C., Meresa, Y., D’Andrea C. 2023. Pre-Aksumite Plant Husbandry in the Horn of Africa. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 32: 635–654. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-023-00949-7

Meresa, Y., Ruiz-Giralt, A., Beldados, A., Lancelotti, C., D’Andrea, C. 2024. Pre-Aksumite and Aksumite agricultural economy at Ona Adi, Tigrai (Ethiopia): first look at a 1000 year-history. African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-024-09574-9

Biagetti, S., Ruiz-Giralt, A., Madella, M., Khalid Magroub, M., Meresa, Y., Haile Gebreselassie, M., Vesaar, G.M., Alam Abro, T., Chandio, A., Lancelotti, C. 2022. No rain no grain? Ethnoarchaeology of sorghum and millets cultivation in drylands. Ethnoarchaeology 13(1-2): 80–104. https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2059994

Beldados, A., Ruiz-Giralt, A. 2023. Burning questions: experiments on the effects of charring on domestic and wild sorghum. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 51: 104170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104170

Ruiz-Giralt, A., Biagetti, S., Madella, M., Lancelotti, C. 2023. Small-scale farming in drylands: new models for resilient practices of millet and sorghum cultivation. PLOS ONE 18(2): e0268120. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268120

Ruiz-Giralt, A., Beldados, A., Biagetti, S., D’Agostini, F., D’Andrea, C., Meresa, Y., Lancelotti, C. 2023. Sorghum and finger millet cultivation during the Aksumite period: insights from ethnoarchaeological modelling and microbotanical analysis. Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology 6(1): 96-116. https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.132


Supplementary materials are available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8407589.