The environmental history and human ecology of northern Ethiopia in the late Holocene
Subtitle: preliminary results of multidisciplinary project
By: edited by Kathryn A. Bard.
Contributors: Bard, Kathryn A.; International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (12th : 1994 : East Lansing, Mich.)
Series: Studi africanistici.; 5
Publisher: Istituto universitario orientale, Dipartimento di studi e ricerche su Africa e paesi arabi
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Napoli
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Human ecology -- Ethiopia -- History.; Geology -- Ethiopia.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ethiopia.; Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene.; Ethiopia -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Earlier versions of the papers in this collection were presented at the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: General geology of the Aksum area / by G. Assefa and A. Russo; title: Environmental history of early Aksum / by K.A. Bard; title: Phases of soil erosion during the Holocene in the highlands of western Tigray (northern Ethiopia) / by L. Brancaccio ... [et al.]; title: Pollen-analytical approaches to the study of Late Holocene environmental history and human ecology on the Shire Plateau of Northern Ethiopia / by M.C. DiBlasi; title: The peopling of the Tigrean Plateau in ancient and mediaval [i.e. medieval] times (ca. 4000 B.C. - A.D. 1500) / by R. Fattovich; title: Historical methods toward a landscape history of the Aksum region, 1500-1900 / by J. McCann.