Agazi Negash

Paleoanthropology and Paleoenvironment Program

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Emails: Agazi.negash@gmail.com

Qualifications

2007 Post Doc. researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

2004 President’s Post Doc, Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of California, USA

2001 Ph.D., Anthropology/Archaeology, University of Florida, USA

1995 M.A., Anthropology/Archaeology, University of Florida, USA

1984 B.A., History, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Research Fields

Geoochemical sourcing of archaeological artifacts

Prehistoric archaeology

Publications(Selected)

1. Yonatan Sahle, Agazi Negash, and D. R. Braun. 2012. Variability in scraper morphology and use: an ethnoarchaeological investigation among the Hadiya of Ethiopia. African ArchaeologicalReview. African Archeological Review. 29(4):383-397.
2. Tegenu Gossa, Yonatan Sahle, and Agazi Negash. 2012. A Reassessment of the Middle and Later Stone Age assemblages from Aladi Springs, Southern Afar Rift, Ethiopia. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 47(2):210-222.
3. Mohammed Umer and Agazi Negash. 2012. Historical review of pastoralism and climate change in the Horn of Africa, with special emphasis on Ethiopia. In Mulugeta Gebrehiwot and Jean-Bosco Butera (eds.). Climate Change, Pastoral Traditional Coping Mechanisms and Conflict in the Horn of Africa. Addis Ababa: Program of the UN affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE)., pp.11-33.
4. Agazi Negash, F. Brown, and B. Nash. 2011. Varieties and sources of artefactual obsidian in the Middle Stone Age of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Archaeometry. 53(4):661-673.
5. Agazi Negash, Brown, F., and Mulugeta Alene, and Nash, B. 2010. Provenance of the Middle Stone Age Artifacts from the central sector of the Main Ethiopian Rift Valley. SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science.33(1):21-30.
6. Brown, F., Reid, C., and Agazi Negash. 2009. Possible isotopic fractionation of argon in source obsidians and archaeological artifacts from Kulkuletti, Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36(10):2119-2124.
7. Agazi Negash, Mulugeta Alene, Brown, F., Nash, B., and Shackely, M. S. 2007. Geochemical Provenance of the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Obsidian Artifacts from the Site of Beseka, Central Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(8):1205-1210.
8. Agazi Negash and Shackley, M. S. 2006. Geochemical Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from the Middle Stone Age (MSA) site of Porc Epic, Ethiopia. Archaeometry. 48(1):1-12
9. Agazi Negash and Shackley, M. S., and Mulugeta Alene. 2006. Source Provenance of Obsidian Artifacts from the Early Stone Age (ESA) site of Melka Konture, Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science, 33(11):1647-1650.
10. Vogel, N., Nomade, S., Agazi Negash, and Renne, P. 2006.Forensic40Ar/39Ar dating: a provenance study of Middle Stone Age obsidian artifacts from Ethiopia. Journal of Archaeological Science. 33(11):1749-1765.