AfOx Fellow
2019
Associate Professor of Environmental Archaeology
Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management
Addis Ababa University
Ethiopia

Research interests

  • Environmental Archaeology
  • Archaeobotany
  • Vegetation History
  • Reconstruction of ancient food systems
  • Natural Heritage Management

Awards/ Prizes

  • German Science Foundation Grant. Mountain Exile hypothesis: case study from Bale Mountains, Ethiopia, 2019-2021. 
  • UNESCO funded Project, 2017, Baseline Survey for Conservation and Protection of the Lower Valley of Awash and Lower Valley of Omo World Heritage Sites.
  • Research Office grant, 2021, Addis Ababa University, Cultures of climate-change adaptation in Ethiopia: Examining Historic Interaction of the Social and Natural Systems  in Konso Zone and Dirashe, Amaro & Burji Special Weredas, SNNPR, Ethiopia

Dr Alemseged Aleho

Research

The focus of my research is Environmental Archaeology. My area of specialty is archaeobotany during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. In the last 13 years, I have been conducting research on Climate/Environment change and human adaptation, understanding change and continuity in the past environmental record, reconstruction of vegetation history and reconstruction of ancient food systems. The geographic focus of my study is The Horn and the Nile Valley of Northeast Africa. 

AfOx Fellowship

Alem was an AfOx-Collaborative Fellow in 2019.

During his 8 week AfOx fellowship in 2019, Alem was hosted by the School of Archaeology and St Hugh's College.

Key publications

  • Beldados A. 2015. Paleoethnobotanical Study of Ancient Food Crops and the Environmental Context in Northeast Africa, 6000 B.C. to 200/300 AD, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology, BAR International Series, 2706. 
  • Beldados A. 2017.Climatic Oscillations and Human Adaption in the Last 4000 Years: Studies from Northeast Sudan and the Northern Horn of Africa, Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Vol 50: 1-26.
  • Beldados A. 2019. “Millets in Eastern Sudan: an archaeobotanical study. ”Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. Vol. 55 No. 1.ISSN: 0067-270X (Print) 1945-5534 (Online) Journal homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raza20.
  • GötzOssendorf, Alexander R. Groos, Tobias Bromm, MinassieGirmaTekelemariam, Bruno Glaser, JoséphineLesur, Joachim Schmidt, NakiAkҫar, TamratBekele, AlemsegedBeldados, SebsebeDemissew, TrhasHadushKahsay, Barbara P. Nash, Thomas Nauss, AgaziNegash, SileshiNemomissa, Heinz Veit, ZerihunWoldu, Wolfgang Zech, Lars Opgenoorth, Georg Miehe. 2019. “Living on the ice edge: Middle Stone Age foragers in the glaciated Bale Mountains of South Ethiopia.”Science, Vol 365, Issue 6453. 
  • Beldados A. and Medhanit Tamrat 2020. “Towards the Mid-Late Holocene environment of Mochena Borago rock shelter, Wolayita, South Ethiopia” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol 16; no. 1.