This book provides the first truly comprehensive multi-period study of the archaeology of Ethiopia, surveying the country's history, detailing the discoveries from the late Stone Age, including the famous 'Lucy' and moving onto the emergence of food production, prehistoric rock art and an analysis of the increasing social complexity that can be obs

List of figures, List of tables, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. A sense of place: Ethiopia, Africa and the world, 2. From 'Lucy' to the LSA: technological development from the Pliocene to the mid-Holocene period, 3. From hunting to herding and plant cultivation: beyond ecological determinism and neo-evolutionary trajectories, 4. Afro-Arabians? Emergent social complexity in the northern highlands in the first millennium BC, 5. Aksum, 6. After Aksum: medieval and post-medieval archaeology, 7. Epilogue: the past in the present, Bibliography, Index