Author: Y. Abul-HaggagPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Contribution to the Physiography of Northern Ethiopia
Author: Y. Abul-HaggagPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A Contribution to the Physiography of Northern Ethiopia
Author: Jūsuf Abū'l-HaǵǵāǵA Contribution to the Physiography of Northern Ethiopia
Author: Y. Abul-HaggagPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia
Author: Paolo BilliPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401780269
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This book provides a succinct but comprehensive presentation of key geomorphological locations and topics including information about geomorphological heritage and maps to visit the most important sites. Apart from often being remarkably scenic, landscapes reveal stories that often can be traced back in time tens of million years and include unique events. This is particularly true for Ethiopia where spectacular examples of different landforms are present. Its geomorphology varies from highlands, marked by high volcanoes and incised by deep river gorges, to the rift valley lakes endorheic systems and the below sea level lowlands with characteristic landscapes which are unique in the world. Landscapes and Landforms of Ethiopia highlights all these topics including essential information about geology and tectonic framework, past and present climate, hydrology, geographical regions and long-term geomorphological history. It is a highly informative book, providing insight for readers with an interest in geography and geomorphology.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Foundations of an African Civilisation
Author: D. W. PhillipsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1847010415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Focuses on the Aksumite state of the first millennium AD in northern Ethiopia and southern Eritrea, its development, florescence and eventual transformation into the so-called medieval civilisation of Christian Ethiopia. This book seeks to apply a common methodology, utilising archaeology, art-history, written documents and oral tradition from a wide variety of sources; the result is a far greater emphasis on continuity than previous studies have revealed. It is thus a major re-interpretation of a key development in Ethiopia's past, while raising and discussing methodological issues of the relationship between archaeology and other historical disciplines; these issues, which have theoretical significance extending far beyond Ethiopia, are discussed in full. The last millennium BC is seen as a time when northern Ethiopia and parts of Eritrea were inhabited by farming peoples whose ancestry may be traced far back into the local 'Late Stone Age'. Colonisation from southern Arabia, to which defining importance has been attached by earlier researchers, is now seen to have been brief in duration and small in scale, its effects largely restricted to élite sections of the community. Re-consideration of inscriptions shows the need to abandon the established belief in a single 'Pre-Aksumite' state. New evidence for the rise of Aksum during the last centuries BC is critically evaluated. Finally, new chronological precision is provided for the decline of Aksum and the transfer of centralised political authority to more southerly regions. A new study of the ancient churches - both built and rock-hewn - which survive from this poorly-understood period emphasises once again a strong degree of continuity across periods that were previously regarded as distinct. David W. Phillipson is Emeritus Professor of African Archaeology and former Director of the University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge. In 2014 he was made an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences. Published in association with the British Institute in Eastern Africa. Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press
Proceedings
Author: Ethiopia
Author: Paulos MilkiasPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598842587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This book is the most complete, accessible, and up-to-date resource for Ethiopian geography, history, politics, economics, society, culture, and education, with coverage from ancient times to the present. Ethiopia is a comprehensive treatment of this ancient country's history coupled with an exploration of the nation today. Arranged by broad topics, the book provides an overview of Ethiopia's physical and human geography, its history, its system of government, and the present economic situation. But the book also presents a picture of contemporary society and culture and of the Ethiopian people. It also discusses art, music, and cinema; class; gender; ethnicity; and education, as well as the language, food, and etiquette of the country. Readers will learn such fascinating details as the fact that coffee was first domesticated in Ethiopia more than 10,000 years ago and that modern Ethiopia comprises 77 different ethnic groups with their own distinct languages.
A Contribution to the Climate of Ethiopia (including the Somalilands)
Author: Lawrence Michael DelliquadriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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