Research interests include palaeoethnobotany, subsistence reconstruction, ethnoarchaeology, and early agrarian societies of northern Africa and the Far East. In Ethiopia, ethnoarchaeological investigations at the Tigrayan village of Adi Ainawalid are examining aspects of traditional farming practice and the nature of households in order to aid in the interpretation of ancient societies in the Ethiopian Highlands. Detailed studies are underway on the non-mechanised processing of several crops including tef, finger millet, wheat, barley and emmer wheat, an ancient cereal that is rarely cultivated today. A new project on sorghum processing will begin in 2005 in the Middle Nile VAlley region of the Sudan. Archaeological investigations in the Gulo-Makeda region are examining the role of rural peoples in the Aksumite Kingdom. Palaeoethnobotanical investigations are also in progress in collaboration with excavation programmes, including the early Aksumite period site of Bieta Giyorgis (Aksum, Ethiopia), various occupations sequences at Tel er-Rub'a (Egypt), Kintampo occupations at the Birimi locality (northern Ghana) and several Jomon period sites, such as Kazahari (Japan).
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Figure 1. Ploughing, Tomb of Sennedjem, Thebes, Egypt, ca. 1250 BC.
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Figure 2. Ploughing near Aksum, Ethiopia, 1997.
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Selected Publications
D'Andrea, A.C. 2003. Social and Technological Aspects of Non-Mechanised Emmer Processing. pp. 47-60 in P.C. Anderson, L.S. Cummings, T.S. Schippess & B. Simonel (eds.) The Traitement des Récoltes: Un Regard sur la diversité néolithique au présent. Antibes. Éditions APDCA.
Lyons, D.E. and A.C. D'Andrea. 2003. Griddles, Ovens, and the Origins of Agriculture: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Bread Baking in Highland Ethiopia. American Anthropologist 105 (3):515-530.
D'Andrea, A.C. and Mitiku Haile. 2002. Traditional Emmer Processing in Highland Ethiopia. Journal of Ethnobiology 22 (2):179-217.
D'Andrea, A.C. and J. Casey. 2002. Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence. African Archaeological Review 19 (3):147-173.
D'Andrea, A.C., M. Klee and J. Casey. 2001. Archaeobotanical Evidence for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) in Sub-Saharan West Africa. Antiquity 75:341-348.
Butler, E.A. and A.C. D'Andrea. 2000. Farming and Famine: Subsistence Strategies in Highland Ethiopia. pp. 180-200 in G. Baker and D. Gilbertson (eds.) Living on the Margins: The Archaeology of Dry Lands. London: Routledge.
D'Andrea, A.C. 1999. Dispersal of Domesticated Plants into Northeastern Japan. pp. 166-183 in C. Gosden and J. Hather (eds.) The Prehistory of Food. London: Routledge.
D'Andrea, D.E. Lyons, A.C., Mitiku Haile, and E.A. Butler. 1999. Ethnoarchaeological Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands. pp. 101-122 in M. van der Veen (ed.)The Exploitation of Plant Resources in Ancient Africa New York: Plenum Publishing Corp.
D'Andrea, A.C. 1995. Archaeobotanical Evidence for Zoku-Jomon Subsistence at the Mochiyazawa Site, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 22(5):583-595.
D'Andrea, A.C. 1995. Later Jomon Subsistence in Northeastern Japan: New Evidence from Palaeoethnobotanical Studies. Asian Perspectives 34(2):195-227.
D'Andrea, A.C., G.W. Crawford, M. Yoshizaki and T. Kudo. 1995. Late Jomon Cultigens from Northeastern Japan. Antiquity 69:146-152.
Department of Archaeology
