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

Product Description
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.
Review
'Mifsas Baḥri is the first significant site of the so-called 'Dark-Age', and so this book contributes significantly to our knowledge about this region and this period by advancing research in this field of study.' Anonymous reviewer 'I have no doubt that researchers (historians and archaeologists) will be very interested in this book. The quality of the archaeological excavation as well as the different analytical data have allowed the authors to present serious and convincing results.' Anonymous reviewer
About the Author
Michela Gaudiello and Paul A. Yule