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：耶哈（提格雷/埃塞俄比亚）古文化区域的重建。这个长期项目计划调查公元前1000年早期从南阿拉伯移民到提格雷地区的萨巴人与该地区当地人口之间的文化联系。因此，研究的首要任务将是辨别南阿拉伯和土著人民之间相互作用的过程。研究的地理焦点是耶哈遗址，鉴于其纪念性建筑和铭文证据，可以被认为是非洲之角北部历史上最重要的文化地区的政治和宗教中心。尽管如此，这方面的研究才刚刚开始。根据迄今为止已知的考古和碑文证据，以及在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，以及从萨巴人存在到阿克苏米特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，可以基于方法论得出关于古代社会形式和生活方式的结论。此外，不同合作伙伴将在古环境重建、气候历史和自然资源利用等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，以及使用最现代的文献技术，对古代文化景观的研究和实地工作应达到符合当今科学标准的水平。

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.