entity · arch_chust
Chust culture
A Ferghana archaeological classification based on settlements, ceramics and farming evidence.
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.
1500 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: range
moderateWorking range preserves source uncertainty and should be refined with site-level dates.
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Drevnezemledelcheskaya kul'tura Fergany: Materialy i issledovaniya po arkheologii SSSR 118 — Yu. A. Zadneprovskii (1962)Provides the foundational definition.
Locator: Chust, settlement, economy and chronology chapters - informs · provides chronological model
On Some Issues of Chronology of Ancient Fergana and Sugd Cultures — Muhammadjon Isamiddinov (2021)Documents competing dates.
Locator: Chronological schemes and stages
1200 BCE–900 BCE
Precision: range
Chronology model: regional or historiographic alternative
lowSome schemes place the main Chust horizon later than the broad working range. More direct dates are required.
- informs · provides chronological model
On Some Issues of Chronology of Ancient Fergana and Sugd Cultures — Muhammadjon Isamiddinov (2021)Provides the shorter model.
Locator: Alternative Chust stages
Research description
Foundational and newer chronologies divide the assemblage into stages and debate its origins. Chust is retained as a regional taxonomy, not as an ancient self-designation, state, ethnicity or language group.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Drevnezemledelcheskaya kul'tura Fergany: Materialy i issledovaniya po arkheologii SSSR 118 — Yu. A. Zadneprovskii (1962)Provides the foundational definition.
Locator: Chust, settlement, economy and chronology chapters - informs · provides chronological model
On Some Issues of Chronology of Ancient Fergana and Sugd Cultures — Muhammadjon Isamiddinov (2021)Documents competing dates.
Locator: Chronological schemes and stages