Iris Gerlach. Миграция и культурный обмен 3000 лет назад юга аравийского полуострова и Магриба

“Saba and the Ethiopian Highlands 3000 Years Ago: Research of the German Archaeological Institute on the cultural contacts of South Arabia with the northern Horn of Africa.“ Dr Iris Gerlach (German Archaeological Institute, Orient Department, Berlin) Organizers: Lloyd Weeks and Khaled Douglas In the early 1st millennium BC the migration of Sabaean populations from the region around Marib in present-day Yemen led to the formation of a complex society in the northern Horn of Africa. Economic interests, such as the lucrative trade of gold, obsidian as well as incense were probably the reasons for the founding of South Arabian trading settlements on the African side of the Red Sea. Social as well as technical innovations stemming from South Arabia shaped a culture called Ethio-Sabaean for about 300 years: among the social changes is, for instance, the adoption of the political and religious institutions of the Sabaeans; among the technical ones a