entity · arch_gash_group
Gash Group
Modern archaeological group label for eastern Sudan material and settlement traditions preceding Jebel Mokram.
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.
2700 BCE–1800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · dates
Eastern Sudan in Its Setting: The Archaeology of a Region Far from the Nile Valley — Andrea Manzo (2017)Provides the principal chronology and classification.
Locator: Gash Group chapters and sequence tables
Research description
The Gash Group is an archaeological classification, not a people or language. Its later phases end before much of the primary interval, but it remains essential antecedent context for eastern Sudan and Red Sea networks.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not ethnicity
Marks a modern archaeological phase or assemblage that must not be treated as an ancient people.
Why does this record have this property?
The group is not directly equivalent to an ethnicity, language or political unit.
- Eastern Sudan in Its Setting: The Archaeology of a Region Far from the Nile Valley
supports · Gash Group chapters
Evidence and sources
- supports · dates
Eastern Sudan in Its Setting: The Archaeology of a Region Far from the Nile Valley — Andrea Manzo (2017)Provides the principal chronology and classification.
Locator: Gash Group chapters and sequence tables
Referenced records
- Eritrean highlands and coast · entity
- Eastern Sudan and Nubia interaction zone · entity