학술논문

The Transition from Hunting-Gathering to Food Production in the Gamo Highlands of Southern Ethiopia.
Document Type
Article
Source
African Archaeological Review. Mar2019, Vol. 36 Issue 1, p5-65. 61p. 13 Color Photographs, 2 Black and White Photographs, 8 Diagrams, 36 Charts, 2 Graphs, 3 Maps.
Subject
*HUNTER-gatherer societies
*FOOD production
*CAVES
*MATERIAL culture
*ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains
Language
ISSN
0263-0338
Abstract
Over three field seasons between 2007 and 2012, we excavated three caves—Mota, Tuwatey, and Gulo—situated at an average elevation of 2,084 m above sea level in the cool and moist Boreda Gamo Highlands of southwestern Ethiopia. Anthropogenic deposits in these caves date from the Middle to Late Holocene (ca. 6000 to 100 BP) and provide excellent preservation of material culture, fauna, flora, and human skeletal remains from which to investigate changes in technologies and habitat use over the last several thousand years. Here, we present results and interpretations, suggesting ways in which Holocene communities of the Boreda Gamo Highlands constructed new landscapes and technologies in their transition from hunting and gathering to an agropastoral way of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]