Files de pierres dressées dans le sud de l'Éthiopie et au nord du Kenya

Field researches of two American teams in the 1970s and 2000s have revealed several sites with lines of standing stones near Lake Turkana in the North of Kenya. The oldest could date from the beginning of the IIIth millennium BC, others have been dated from the second half of the Ist millennium BC....

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Autor principal:	Roger Joussaume
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Publicado:	OpenEdition 2013
Materias:	alignments standing stones tumulus Konso Gewada megalithism Archaeology CC1-960 History of the arts NX440-632
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d4ea9e49e25344b3b3d8aa7e4f88f2c12021-12-02T10:47:56ZFiles de pierres dressées dans le sud de l'Éthiopie et au nord du Kenya2431-204510.4000/aaa.313https://doaj.org/article/d4ea9e49e25344b3b3d8aa7e4f88f2c12013-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/aaa/313https://doaj.org/toc/2431-2045Field researches of two American teams in the 1970s and 2000s have revealed several sites with lines of standing stones near Lake Turkana in the North of Kenya. The oldest could date from the beginning of the IIIth millennium BC, others have been dated from the second half of the Ist millennium BC. They were the work of a pastoral society who have known ceramic. In Sidamo, in the South of Ethiopia, the phallic steles of Gedeo and Sidama countries frequently form more or less long alignments, sometimes associated to a small elongated tumulus recovering a pit which seems to have been a grave. In Waheno, this pit contained a polished axe, some microlithes in obsidian and ceramic sherds. These sites could date from the Xth-XIIth centuries AD maybe related to the regional development of agriculture. South of Lake Chamo, in Ethiopia, the current inhabitants, Konso and Gewada, still raise stones on some occasions. The study of their social organization and their funeral customs allows to widen the debate on the functions of stone rows elsewhere in the world.Roger JoussaumeOpenEditionarticlealignmentsstanding stonestumulusKonsoGewadamegalithismArchaeologyCC1-960History of the artsNX440-632ENFRAfrique Archéologie Arts, Vol 9, Pp 85-99 (2013)
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description	Field researches of two American teams in the 1970s and 2000s have revealed several sites with lines of standing stones near Lake Turkana in the North of Kenya. The oldest could date from the beginning of the IIIth millennium BC, others have been dated from the second half of the Ist millennium BC. They were the work of a pastoral society who have known ceramic. In Sidamo, in the South of Ethiopia, the phallic steles of Gedeo and Sidama countries frequently form more or less long alignments, sometimes associated to a small elongated tumulus recovering a pit which seems to have been a grave. In Waheno, this pit contained a polished axe, some microlithes in obsidian and ceramic sherds. These sites could date from the Xth-XIIth centuries AD maybe related to the regional development of agriculture. South of Lake Chamo, in Ethiopia, the current inhabitants, Konso and Gewada, still raise stones on some occasions. The study of their social organization and their funeral customs allows to widen the debate on the functions of stone rows elsewhere in the world.
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Files de pierres dressées dans le sud de l'Éthiopie et au nord du Kenya

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