عنوان

A LATE STONE AGE SEQUENCE FROM WEST ETHIOPIA:

شماره

LA113679

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A LATE STONE AGE SEQUENCE FROM WEST ETHIOPIA:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

THE SITES OF KAABA AND BEL KURKUMU (ASSOSA, BENISHANGUL-GUMUZ REGIONAL STATE)

نام نخستين پديدآور

Víctor M. Fernández, Ignacio de la Torre, Luis Luque, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

In this paper, the results of the test excavations in two rock shelters in the Central Ethiopian escarpment near the Sudanese border are presented. A continuous sequence of quartz lithic industry, from the lowest levels of K'aaba (with an archaic MSA-like industry of side-scrapers, Levallois- discoid cores and unifacial points) to the upper levels of Bel K'urk'umu (with a LSA industry, characterised by elongated flakes and end-scrapers, that still displays many archaic features such as centripetal flakes and cores) may be inferred. The escarpment's mountainous and forested areas may have acted as a refuge zone from the end of the Pleistocene, when hyper-arid conditions deterred human occupation of the Sudanese plains nearby, and may also have been a cause for the cultural archaism of the late MSA groups, a case similar to others recorded in the African continent (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nile Valley). The arrival of Sudanese pottery in the mid-Holocene period may be explained by the onset of arid conditions that drove "aqualithic" groups and early herders towards more humid areas. The conservative character of the late prehistoric cultural sequence derived from both sites is consistent with the resilient traditional nature of the Nilo- Saharan groups that currently settle the Ethio-Sudanese borderlands. In this paper, the results of the test excavations in two rock shelters in the Central Ethiopian escarpment near the Sudanese border are presented. A continuous sequence of quartz lithic industry, from the lowest levels of K'aaba (with an archaic MSA-like industry of side-scrapers, Levallois- discoid cores and unifacial points) to the upper levels of Bel K'urk'umu (with a LSA industry, characterised by elongated flakes and end-scrapers, that still displays many archaic features such as centripetal flakes and cores) may be inferred. The escarpment's mountainous and forested areas may have acted as a refuge zone from the end of the Pleistocene, when hyper-arid conditions deterred human occupation of the Sudanese plains nearby, and may also have been a cause for the cultural archaism of the late MSA groups, a case similar to others recorded in the African continent (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nile Valley). The arrival of Sudanese pottery in the mid-Holocene period may be explained by the onset of arid conditions that drove "aqualithic" groups and early herders towards more humid areas. The conservative character of the late prehistoric cultural sequence derived from both sites is consistent with the resilient traditional nature of the Nilo- Saharan groups that currently settle the Ethio-Sudanese borderlands.

تاريخ نشر

2007

توصيف ظاهري

91-126

عنوان

Journal of African Archaeology

شماره جلد

5/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2191-5784

اصطلاح موضوعی

Later Stone Age

اصطلاح موضوعی

lithic technology

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mesolithic-Neolithic pottery

اصطلاح موضوعی

Middle Stone Age

اصطلاح موضوعی

Western Ethiopia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Alfredo González-Ruibal

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ignacio de la Torre

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

José Antonio López-Sáez

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Luis Luque

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Víctor M. Fernández

شماره بازیابی

10.3213/1612-1651-10087

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y