The Gash Group is a neolithic culture situated in the Southeastern Sudan and Northern Eritrea region. The academic consensus based on the most recent archeological evidence is that this culture is the Land of Punt.
Excavations at its capital of Mahal Teglinos revealed evidence of permanent settlement, architectural remains of large mud-brick buildings that date back 5,000 years ago, and the use of administrative devices indicating the establishment of a centralized political system (ie the first state in the Horn).
It's also believed that the Gash Group is also responsible for the domestication & dissemination of sorghum through trade.
The cultural practice of erecting funerary stelae that reached its zenith with the Aksumites also originated with the Gash Group. Excavations of the eastern cemetery in Mahal Teglinos revealed the erection of funerary stelae on top of the graves of elite members of society.
Excavations at its capital of Mahal Teglinos revealed evidence of permanent settlement, architectural remains of large mud-brick buildings that date back 5,000 years ago, and the use of administrative devices indicating the establishment of a centralized political system (ie the first state in the Horn).
It's also believed that the Gash Group is also responsible for the domestication & dissemination of sorghum through trade.
The cultural practice of erecting funerary stelae that reached its zenith with the Aksumites also originated with the Gash Group. Excavations of the eastern cemetery in Mahal Teglinos revealed the erection of funerary stelae on top of the graves of elite members of society.
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