Original research article
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean

The pottery from the site of Wakarida

2020, 29, No. 1

Anne Benoist

0000-0001-5867-2617

UMR 5133 Archéorient, CNRS, Lyon

Vincent Bernard

Independent

Cecile Verdellet

CNRS, UMR 7041, ArScan, Nanterre, France

DOI

10.31338/uw.2083-537X.pam29.1.19

Publication date

31.12.2020

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open access

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CC BY 3.0 PL

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Humanities

Discipline

archeology

Language of publication

English

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Abstract

Excavations carried out between 2012 and 2013 at Wakarida in northeastern Tigray uncovered a huge quantity of pottery distributed across the different levels identified at the site. The different pottery assemblages collected from the site are presented in this contribution, proposing a periodization of the occupation of Wakarida city into two main units: Period I (subdivided into successive phases IA and IB) and Period II. Pottery comparisons and 14C dating provide the grounds for dating the two assemblages.

Keywords:

Ethiopia,Tigray,archaeology,pottery,Aksumite period

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