The Expansion of the Aksumite Zone in the South of Tigray, an Unexplored Cultural Landscape
Final Report Abstract
1. The Mifsas Bahri Project was successful to provide a community-based research project with model character. Main attributes include a strong interaction with the local population, a good Open Access documentation which make Mifsas Baḥri site 001 a benchmark for the Late Aksumite Period with a steady track record. Other comparably financed projects have not met these standards in Ethiopia. 2. Surprising was the clarity of the dating to the Late Aksumite Period and a fair correspondence in terms of 14C dating. 3. In addition to conventional publication, our study group entered 2173 images of our project in the virtual diatheque heidICON of Heidelberg’s University Library. This is the first such public and gratis archiving of its kind in Africa, as far as I know (https://heidicon.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/BildsucheFrames?easydb=dpn4utclkeh9ge33ajqdcdhps3).
Publications
- Mifsas Baḥrī a Ruin Complex in the Southern Tigray Region, 2013, 4th International Enno Littmann Conference, Tübingen University, 03.04.2014
P. Yule; S. Wenig
- Bildarchive für die Archäologie Arabiens: ein Rennen gegen die Zeit, in: Festschrift für Walter Raunig zum 80. Geburtstag, C. Müller–M. Mergenthaler (eds.), Ethnographische Streifzüge, Dettelbach 2016, 163–8. ISBN 978-3-89754-475-8
P. Yule
- Mifsas Bahri: a Late Aksumite frontier community in the mountains of southern Tigray. Survey, excavation and analysis, 2013–16. (British Archaeological Reports International series 2839). 2017. xix + 279 pages, 234 colour and b&w illustrations and 44 tables. Oxford:
British Archaeological Reports; 978-1-4073-1579-9
M. Gaudiello; P. Yule (eds.)
