Mifsas Baḥri: a Late Aksumite Frontier Community in the Mountains of Southern Tigray: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 2013–16: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 2013–16

This book describes the broad network of studies which were involved in three years of archaeological research in the southern Tigray (Ethiopia), at the Mifsas Baḥri site. The uniqueness of this work lies in the subject of our research and in the final results. Mifsas Baḥri is the southernmost Late Aksumite (c. 550‒c. 700 CE) site known in Tigray, the ruins of which dominate the amazing landscape of Lake Ḥashenge. The data collected from the excavation, survey, pottery and anthropological analysis, historical and linguistic researches contribute to the knowledge of a region of southern Tigray during the so-called "Ethiopian dark age". This book offers to the scientific community and to scholars involved in the Ethiopian studies new, convincing results and information regarding a region and a period hitherto unknown in the history of ancient Ethiopia. The Excavation, 2013-16 / Paul A. Yule, Curt Hilbrig And Manjil Hazarika -- Catalogue Of The Survey Of The Lake Ḥashenge Area, 2014 / Baldur Gabriel, Yohannes Gebre Selassie And Hiruy Daniel -- Survey Around The Archaeological Site Mifsas Baḥri, 2014 / Baldur Gabriel And Paul A. Yule -- Archaeological Survey, 2015 / Anne Mortimer -- Mifsas Baḥri Survey Gazetteer 2015 / Anne Mortimer -- Lake Ḥashenge And Archaeological Sites In 19th Century Cartography - From A Documentation Of Local Traditions To Claims Of Exactness / Wolbert G. C. Smidt -- Brief Description Of Scoria From Mifsas Baḥri 001 / Michael Raith -- The Small Finds Mifsas Baḥri Site 001 / Paul A. Yule -- Small Lithic Finds From Mifsas Baḥri / Manjil Hazarika And Tsehay Terefe -- The Pottery / Michela Gaudiello -- The Pottery Wares And Typology / Michela Gaudiello -- Human Skeletal Remains 2013-16 / Svenja Partheil -- Architecture And Architectural Sculpture / Paul A. Yule And Michela Gaudiello -- Stratigraphy And Chronology / Curt Hilbrig And Paul A. Yule -- Dialect And Agricultural Terminology In Mifsas Baḥri / Werner Arnold And Fesseha Berhe -- On The Oral Traditions Of Ḥašängä And Its Environs: A Preliminary Field Report / Fesseha Berhe -- Conclusions / Paul A. Yule. Edited By Michela Gaudiello, Paul A. Yule. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 274-279). Cover Page Title Page Copyright List of Illustrations and Tables List of Fieldwork Participants List of Contributors Editors’ Foreword Foreword Mekelle University Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Excavation, 2013‒16 Chapter 2a: Catalogue of the Survey of the Lake Ḥashenge Area, 2014 Chapter 2b: Survey around the Archaeological Site Mifsas Baḥri, 2014 Chapter 3a: Archaeological Survey, 2015 Chapter 3b: Mifsas Baḥri Survey Gazetteer 2015 Chapter 4: Lake Ḥashenge and Archaeological Sites in 19th Century Cartography – From a Documentation of Local Traditions to Claims of Exactness Chapter 5: Brief Description of Scoria from Mifsas Baḥri 001 Chapter 6a: The Small Finds Mifsas Baḥri Site 001 Chapter 6b: Small Lithic Finds from Mifsas Baḥri Chapter 7a: The Pottery Chapter 7b: The Pottery Wares and Typology Chapter 8: Human Skeletal Remains 2013–16 Chapter 9: Architecture and Architectural Sculpture Chapter 10: Stratigraphy and Chronology Chapter 11: Dialect and Agricultural Terminology in Mifsas Baḥri Chapter 12: On the Oral Traditions of Ḥašängä and its Environs: A Preliminary Field Report Chapter 13: Conclusions Chapter 14: Sources used