This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for
developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two …

Adulis, located on the Red Sea coast in present-day Eritrea, was a bustling trading centre
between the first and seventh centuries CE. Several classical geographers—Agatharchides …

The so-called Kingdom of Aksum in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea was the dominant African
polity along the southern Red Sea in the first millennium AD. The polity emerged in central …

This book gathers invited contributions from active researchers to provide an up-to-date
overview of the geological setting of the Red Sea. It discusses aspects ranging from …

The port-city of Adulis in modern Eritrea was a key node on the Red Sea linking the
Kingdom of Aksum to the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Recent …

This article presents a synthesis of the hypotheses and evidence for plant domestication and
the origins of agriculture in the northern Horn of Africa. To date, available archaeological …

Adulis, located on the Red Sea coast in present-day Eritrea, was a bustling trading centre
between the first and seventh centuries CE. Several classical geographers—Agatharchides …

This article presents new data from fieldwork in the de facto state of Somaliland, a region in
the Horn of Africa historically inhabited by nomadic pastoralists who played a key role in …

The aim of this paper is to present new archaeological data coming from the recent
excavations in Adulis (Eritrea) in the so-called “Church of the British Museum”, discovered in …

Systematic studies on Late Islamic cemeteries that integrate architectural, ritual, and
biological aspects remain relatively rare, particularly in Islamic countries or regions with an …