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Civilization at Aksum - Excavations at Aksum: An Account of Research at the Ancient Ethiopian Capital Directed in 1972–4 by the late Dr Neville Chittick. By S. C. Munro-Hay. Volume editor: D. W. Phillipson; foreword by J. E. G. Sutton, contributions by A. Kacsmarcsyk, R. Lewcock, H.M. Morrison, R. F. Wilding. London: British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989. Pp. xvi + 359; 72 plates, 1259 figures, 8 tables. £30. (Memoir no. 10 of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.) Distributed by Thames and Hudson.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Donald Crummey
Donald Crummey
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University of Illinois
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The Journal of African History , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 144 - 146
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References

1 Littmann, E., Deutsche Aksum-Expedition (Berlin: 4 vols., 1913).Google Scholar

2 Ibid.

3 Chapter 3 of the work under review contains an excellent summary of previous archaeology.

4 Some of which can be explored through: Kobishchanov, Y. M., Axum, edited by Michels, J. W., translated by L. T. Kapitanoff (University Park and London, 1979)Google Scholar; and Sellassie, Sergew Hable, Ancient and Medieval Ethiopian History to 1270 (Addis Ababa, 1972).Google Scholar

5 Michels, Joseph W., ‘The Axumite kingdom: a settlement archaeology perspective’, Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Ethiopian Studies. Moscow, 26–29 August 1986 (Moscow, 1988), vol. 6, 173–83.Google Scholar