entity · arch_bishkent
Bishkent / Beshkent mortuary complex
Also known as: Beshkent culture
A mortuary archaeological label with a disputed chronology and relationship to Vakhsh, Early Tulkhar and steppe assemblages.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
2200 BCE–1500 BCE
Precision: range
lowRevised chronology is preferred over inherited culture-historical conversion.
- informs · critiques interpretation
Materials of the Early Tulkhar necropolis in the light of the hypothesis of Andronovo population migration to the south: problems of chronology — Svetlana V. Sotnikova (2024)Challenges the older migration sequence.
Locator: Chronology of Early Tulkhar, Bishkent and Fedorovo comparisons - informs · contextualizes
The 'classical Vakhsh culture': a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium in southern Tajikistan — Mike Teufer (2021)Provides comparison with Vakhsh material.
Locator: Regional mortuary chronology
1700 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: range
Chronology model: regional or historiographic alternative
very lowNot preferred because the required Early Tulkhar and Fedorovo chronological sequence is contradicted by new dates.
- informs · critiques interpretation
Materials of the Early Tulkhar necropolis in the light of the hypothesis of Andronovo population migration to the south: problems of chronology — Svetlana V. Sotnikova (2024)Provides the falsification.
Locator: Chronology of older migration model
Research description
Older migration schemes placed it later and linked it to southward Fedorovo movements, while newer dating challenges that chain. The entity preserves the dispute rather than selecting an ethnic or linguistic identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · critiques interpretation
Materials of the Early Tulkhar necropolis in the light of the hypothesis of Andronovo population migration to the south: problems of chronology — Svetlana V. Sotnikova (2024)Challenges the older migration sequence.
Locator: Chronology of Early Tulkhar, Bishkent and Fedorovo comparisons - informs · contextualizes
The 'classical Vakhsh culture': a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium in southern Tajikistan — Mike Teufer (2021)Provides comparison with Vakhsh material.
Locator: Regional mortuary chronology