Richard Lee is an archaeologist who has been undertaking fieldwork in Yemen, Ethiopia, Egypt, Jordan, Benin, and throughout the UK, over the last thirty years. He finally decided to study for his PhD at the Department of Archaeology, University of York, which will be completed in May 2023. His research investigated the first millennium BC relationship between Yemen and Ethiopia defined by the trade of obsidian. Archaeological evidence suggests that the burgeoning exchange in obsidian from Ethiopia to South Arabia was a contributory factor in the development of social complexity in Tigray ca 800 BC. Exogenous influence from South Arabian-Yemen material culture significantly shapes the pre-Aksumite character during the first and second millennium BC. The exchange process indicates that there was a movement of people across the long distances and challenging topographies between the Ethiopian Tigray highlands and the Yemen Tihamah.
2010 – Thanos Petouris
2010 Academic Grant Scholar - Thanos Petouris – School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Thanos Petouris is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Politics, School of Oriental & African Studies London. He is researching the nationalist,...
