Cultural contacts between South Arabia and Ethiopia:The reconstruction of the ancient cultural region of Yeha (Tigray/Ethiopia)

南阿拉伯与埃塞俄比亚的文化接触：叶哈古文化区（提格雷/埃塞俄比亚）的重建

• 批准号: 317574504
• 负责人: Dr. Iris Gerlach
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Geologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/317574504?language=en
• 关键词: Cultural; contacts; between; South; Arabia

Cultural contacts between South Arabia and Ethiopia: The reconstruction of the ancient cultural region of Yeha (Tigray/Ethiopia). The long-term project plans to investigate cultural contacts between the Sabaeans, who immigrated from South Arabia to the region of Tigray in the early 1st millennium BC, and the local population in this region. Thereby, foremost of study will be to discern processes of interaction between South Arabian and indigenous peoples. The geographical focal point of research is the site of Yeha, which in view of its monumental architecture and inscribed evidence can be considered the political and religious centre of this culture historically most important region on the northern Horn of Africa. Nonetheless, research there is only in its beginnings. Building upon the hitherto known archaeological and epigraphical evidence and on the anticipated results from research in Yeha and vicinity, the emergence and change in this cultural sphere will be analysed and as well as possible lines of tradition traced from the time of the Sabaean presence until the Axumite period. This approach will also include ethnohistorical research, which due to the conservative memory landscape of Tigray enables methodologically based conclusions about social forms and ways of life in antiquity. Moreover, geoarchaeological lines of inquiry will be pursued by the different cooperation partners concerning the reconstruction of the palaeoenvironment, climate history and use of natural resources to provide evidence for different subsistence forms. Through the cooperation of various branches of the humanities and the natural sciences, as well as the use of modern-most techniques of documentation, a level of research and field work on an ancient cultural landscape corresponding to scientific standards of today should be achieved.

南阿拉伯和埃塞俄比亚之间的文化接触：重建耶哈（提格雷/埃塞俄比亚）的古代文化区。该长期项目计划调查公元前1世纪初从南阿拉伯移民到提格雷地区的Sabaeans与该地区当地居民之间的文化接触。因此，最重要的研究将是辨别南阿拉伯和土著人民之间的互动过程。 研究的地理重点是耶哈遗址，鉴于其纪念性建筑和文字证据，可将其视为非洲之角北方这一历史上最重要的文化区域的政治和宗教中心。尽管如此，那里的研究才刚刚开始。根据迄今已知的考古和金石学证据，以及在耶哈和附近地区的研究的预期结果，将分析这一文化领域的出现和变化，以及从萨拜人存在的时间到阿克苏姆时期可能的传统路线。这种方法还将包括民族历史研究，由于提格雷的保守记忆景观，这种研究能够对古代的社会形式和生活方式得出基于方法论的结论。此外，不同的合作伙伴将继续进行地质考古调查，以重建古环境、气候历史和自然资源的利用，为不同的生存形式提供证据。通过人文科学和自然科学各分支的合作，以及使用最现代的文献技术，应实现与当今科学标准相对应的古代文化景观研究和实地工作水平。