The Spatial Observation Lab for Archaeological Research (SOLAR) specializes in applications of spatial technologies, including satellite imagery and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, for investigations of the ancient past.
The Spatial Observation Lab for Archaeological Research (SOLAR) specializes in applications of spatial technologies, including satellite imagery and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping, for investigations of the ancient past.
The early Christian kingdom of Aksum was at the heart of a great maritime trading network. Hundreds of ancient obelisks and stelas are strewn across fields on the outskirts of Aksum, a city in the highlands of northern Ethiopia’s Tigray...
Landscape History of Hadramawt: The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) Project 1998-2008, published in 2020 by the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, has been awarded the 2022 Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports presented by the Archaeological Institute of America...
Aksum was one of Africa’s most powerful and influential ancient civilizations, but many details of its history remain scantly understood. How did Aksumite civilization originate? Why, after nearly one thousand years, did it eventually collapse? Drawing on his collaborative research...
