Miscellaneous

   


These are lithic artefacts collected from Dandero, a site located in the Denakil region of Eritrea. Geoarchaeological evidence reveals that the site belongs to Middle Stone Age cutlure (250-40kyr BP). They were collected by a rescue excavation during an investigation conducted in winter 1999 by a group composed of specialists form Eritrean National Museum, Ministry of Mining, Asmara University, and team of researchers led by W.C.Walter from the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona. I have conducted prelimnary metric analysis on these as a senior essay project in spring 2000. Interestingly, I have obeserved important similarities in measurements values with some  East African middle pleistocene collections. Morphologically, they represent cultural features attributable to Archaic humans- H.heidelbergensis (Bifacial hand-axes and cleavers are commom). This is important  to assess the emergence of  early humans from the present day Eritrean land. (more info: http://exn.ca/hominids/slideshow.cfm)
My Dissertation research-plan is to continue searching for more sites on the immediate surroundings of Dandero  and Buya area.


 Archaeololgy is all about making manu friends


University of Asmara Dorm with my batch(Sept. 1999)







Receiving Trowel -the embelem of Archaeology from Prof. Schimdt
(Photo: Massawa, Nov.28, 1998).





With my Archaeology Batch overt the Kohaito Plateau on the occasion of Metera-Kohaito Trip (Jan. 21, 1998).