entity · arch_post_bmac_murghab
Post-BMAC Murghab communities
A cautious collective label for diverse settlement, mobile and technological practices after the mature BMAC urban phase.
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.
1700 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
moderateWorking range preserves source uncertainty and should be refined with site-level dates.
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Ojakly: A Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist site in the Murghab Region, Turkmenistan — Lynne M. Rouse, Barbara Cerasetti (2014)Documents mobile pastoral activity during the transition.
Locator: Site chronology and interpretation - informs · contextualizes
Irrigating the Desert: A New Archaeology of Water Management in the Murghab Delta, Turkmenistan — Michele Arciero (2025)Supports system-level reorganization.
Locator: Post-Bronze Age settlement and hydrological synthesis
Research description
Ojakly, changing oasis sites and later Yaz-related assemblages show reorganization rather than one uniform collapse. The label is descriptive and does not assume population replacement or a single successor culture.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Ojakly: A Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist site in the Murghab Region, Turkmenistan — Lynne M. Rouse, Barbara Cerasetti (2014)Documents mobile pastoral activity during the transition.
Locator: Site chronology and interpretation - informs · contextualizes
Irrigating the Desert: A New Archaeology of Water Management in the Murghab Delta, Turkmenistan — Michele Arciero (2025)Supports system-level reorganization.
Locator: Post-Bronze Age settlement and hydrological synthesis