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An ethnoarchaeological approach to exploring the development of hideworking traditions in Ethiopia (2016)
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Presented are the results of an ethnoarchaeological study of hide working traditions among the Wolayta peoples of southern Ethiopia. This research is part of a larger study that aims at tracing the development of social complexity/inequality occurring during the pre-Aksumite period (>800-450 BCE) in eastern Tigrai through studying the emergence of craft specialization of hideworking traditions. The processing and trading of hides has a long history in Ethiopia. The export and local trading of...