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

南非和埃塞俄比亚之间的文化接触：重建耶哈古文化区(提格雷/埃塞俄比亚)。这一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萨巴人与该地区当地居民之间的文化接触。因此，研究的首要任务将是查明南阿拉伯人和土著人民之间的互动过程。研究的地理焦点是耶哈遗址，鉴于其不朽的建筑和铭刻的证据，它可以被认为是这一文化的政治和宗教中心，在历史上是非洲之角北部最重要的地区。尽管如此，那里的研究还只处于起步阶段。根据迄今已知的考古和金石学证据，以及耶哈和附近地区研究的预期结果，将分析这一文化领域的出现和变化，以及从萨巴人出现到阿克苏米时期的可能传统路线。这种方法还将包括民族史研究，由于提格雷保守的记忆图景，这使得关于古代社会形态和生活方式的方法论结论成为可能。此外，不同的合作伙伴将在重建古环境、气候历史和利用自然资源方面开展地质考古研究，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，以及使用最新的文献技术，应达到与当今科学标准相对应的对古代文化景观的研究和实地工作的水平。

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.