For more than 400 years, the people of the Konso highlands in Ethiopia have used terracing and traditional farming methods to adapting to their harsh environment, building a globally recognize ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southern Ethiopia, the Konso people have maintained a 400-year-old stone terracing system, essential for farming in the region’s semiarid ...

Konso Cultural Landscape is an arid property of stone walled terraces and fortified settlements in the Konso highlands of Ethiopia. It constitutes a spectacular example of a living cultural tradition ...

Perhaps, in Konso, one might feel this could be an election campaign as men and women of a highly indefatigable people, wearing colorful shirts promoting the ruling party. Nevertheless ...

The five-inch-long tool—unearthed at the Konso archaeological site in southern Ethiopia—is one of two known bone axes crafted more than one million years ago. Prehistoric implements made out ...

18 - Cultural Properties - Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia) 2010 34COM 8B.11 - Cultural Properties - Konso Cultural Landscape (Ethiopia) The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are ...