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The ‘Ona’ Culture of Greater Asmara: Archaeology’s Liberation of Eritrea’s Ancient History from Colonial Paradigms
Peter R. Schmidt · 2002
Citation metadata
- Type
- journal article and project synthesis
- Publication
- Journal of Eritrean Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 29–59
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
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- claim Modern Arab, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Afar, Tigrayan, Eritrean and other identities cannot be equated directly with the archaeological assemblages or external labels used for 1…Evidence confidence: near certaininforms · critiques interpretation · Colonial-paradigm discussion
Shows the political consequences of projecting later identities.
- date assertion Sembel — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · Greater Asmara and Sembel discussion
Provides the site evidence and chronology.
- date assertion Ancient Ona assemblage of Greater Asmara — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; Greater Asmara sites and historiographic framing
Defines the assemblage and challenges colonial paradigms.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; settlement and chronology discussion
Provides the Greater Asmara evidence.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; settlement and chronology discussion
Provides the Greater Asmara evidence.
- date assertion Eritrean highlands and coast — date assertioninforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59
Provides Greater Asmara evidence and historiographic critique.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; settlement and chronology discussion
Provides the Greater Asmara evidence.
- relationship Ancient Ona assemblage of Greater Asmara — partly contemporaneous with — Early Pre-Aksumite phaseEvidence confidence: lowsupports · dates · Greater Asmara chronology
Provides the Ona range.
- claim The best-published Ancient Ona settlement horizon begins around 800 BCE and continues later, so it is an endpoint and consequence record rather than dense evidence for the whole…Evidence confidence: moderatesupports · dates · Greater Asmara chronology and settlement discussion
Provides the principal date range.
- date assertion Emergence of Ancient Ona settlements in Greater Asmara — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowsupports · dates · Greater Asmara chronology discussion
Provides the published early range and its limitations.
- entity Ancient Ona assemblage of Greater AsmaraEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; Greater Asmara sites and historiographic framing
Defines the assemblage and challenges colonial paradigms.
- event Emergence of Ancient Ona settlements in Greater AsmaraEvidence confidence: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; settlement and chronology discussion
Provides the Greater Asmara evidence.
- entity SembelEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · Greater Asmara and Sembel discussion
Provides the site evidence and chronology.
- entity Eritrean highlands and coastEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59
Provides Greater Asmara evidence and historiographic critique.
- date assertion Emergence of Ancient Ona settlements in Greater Asmara — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; settlement and chronology discussion
Provides the Greater Asmara evidence.
- claim 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: highsupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; culture-group definition
Provides the assemblage and historiographic context.
- relationship Ancient Ona assemblage of Greater Asmara — located or analytically grouped within — Eritrean highlands and coastEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · pp. 29–59; Greater Asmara sites and historiographic framing
Defines the assemblage and challenges colonial paradigms.
- relationship Sembel — located or analytically grouped within — Eritrean highlands and coastEvidence confidence: moderatesupports · provides archaeological observation · Greater Asmara and Sembel discussion
Provides the site evidence and chronology.
- property assignment Ancient Ona assemblage of Greater Asmara — has property — Archaeological label, not ethnicityEvidence confidence: highsupports · supports · pp. 29–59
Provides the assemblage and historiographic critique.