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SUMMARY:AAG Lent 2023 Seminar 4 - Coffee Production and Consumption: Ethno
 archaeological Perspectives from Southwest Ethiopia - Dr Worku Derara Mege
 nassa\, Addis Ababa University
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DESCRIPTION:The study of coffee as an indigenous plant has been marginal i
 n the archaeology of Ethiopia\, where focus has been given to other topics
  of interest in prehistory and historical archaeology. Despite the fact th
 at scholars studying Ethiopia have long acknowledged the central role that
  the production and consumption of the beverage from coffee grains played 
 in traditional Ethiopian societies\, few field projects have focused on ho
 w to recognize the loci of small-scale coffee production in the archaeolog
 ical record. Recent ethnoarchaeological study on the role of coffee in tra
 ditional communities living in Southwest Ethiopia has shown that the produ
 ction and consumption of coffee plays a key role in household economies an
 d the socio-cultural life of societies. In this paper\, the researcher pre
 sents the results of ethnoarchaeological study among three traditional com
 munities in southwestern Ethiopia—where this type of research has not pr
 eviously been undertaken. He uses new data and existing studies to hypothe
 size the context in which the early cultivation of the plant might have st
 arted. To do so\, this study focuses on the material correlates of small-s
 cale traditional coffee cultivation systems\, with an explicit emphasis on
  materials used during the brewing and consumption of the beverage\, and t
 he socio-cultural contexts of its consumption. This ethnoarchaeological ob
 servation of modern production and consumption of coffee in traditional se
 ttings has proposed new analogs pertinent to the interpretation of the arc
 haeological record.\n\nDr Worku Derara Megenassa earned his BA in History 
 and MA in Archaeology from Addis Ababa University and his PhD in History a
 nd Archaeology from Complutense University of Madrid. Currently\, he is an
  Assistant Professor and the head of the Department of Archaeology and Her
 itage Management at Addis Ababa University. His research interests are eth
 noarchaeology\, megaliths\, environment-culture interactions\, cognitive a
 rchaeology\, and iconography.\n\nThis is an online event via Zoom. Registe
 r in advance for this meeting here:  https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIp
 f-ysrTIrGtAx6F7pVM1ZyuLVv_ol79Ko  \n
LOCATION:Online
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