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ID: 7059185
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7059185
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Gobo Dura (deserted settlement)  Gobo Dura (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 07 51 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.1310  decimal degrees
Long: 038 39 50 E  degrees minutes   Long: 38.6647  decimal degrees

Note: Palaeolithic/Neolithic rock shelter where the remains of pottery and camel-tooth implements were found placing the shift to the Neolithic period in Ityop'iya around 4500 - 3000 BCE. Located about 3 km west of the Queen of Sheba Palace, just outside of Āksum.

Names:
Gobo Dura (preferred,C,V)
Gobedra (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Ethiopia (nation)  ........  Ethiopia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tigray (state)  ............  Tigray (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Gobo Dura (deserted settlement)  ................  Gobo Dura (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)
rock shelter (C)  ............  beginning 10,000 BCE

Sources and Contributors:
Gobedra..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 256-257
Gobo Dura..........  [VP]
....................  Briggs and Blatt, Ethiopia (2009)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 256-257
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002) 256

 

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