claim · claim_ona_label_not_ethnicity

Ancient Ona is a modern archaeological culture-group label and cannot be equated directly with an ancient ethnicity, language, Punt population or a modern Eritrean identity.

Evidence confidence: high

Review and provenance

Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.

Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

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Evidence and sources

supports · provides archaeological observation
The ‘Ona’ Culture of Greater Asmara: Archaeology’s Liberation of Eritrea’s Ancient History from Colonial Paradigms — Peter R. Schmidt (2002)
Provides the assemblage and historiographic context.

Locator: pp. 29–59; culture-group definition

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informs · contextualizes
The Pre-Aksumite Period: Indigenous Origins and Development in the Horn of Africa — A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, Steven A. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, Habtamu Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Carla Lancelotti, Abebe Mengistu Taffere, Lucas M. Johnson (2023)
Shows the diversity of regional labels and phases.

Locator: Northern Horn comparative sequence