entity · arch_tianshanbeilu
Tianshanbeilu assemblage
A Bronze Age cemetery and material assemblage important to eastern Central Asian metallurgy and contact debates.
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.
1800 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
moderateContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Metallurgy at the Crossroads: New Analyses of Copper-based Objects at Tianshanbeilu, Eastern Xinjiang, China — Cheng Liu, Ruiliang Liu, Pengcheng Zhou, Chun Lu, Zengxin Yang, A. Mark Pollard, Peter Hommel, Jian Ma, Jianfeng Cui, Peter Bray, Jianyi Tong, Jessica Rawson (2020)Provides object-level technological evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical dataset and regional comparison - informs · provides historiography
The existence of Andronovo cultural influence in Xinjiang during the second millennium BC — Jianjun Mei, Colin Shell (1999)Documents the history of the influence interpretation.
Locator: Andronovo influence argument
Research description
Metal and artefact comparisons indicate multiple technological and exchange connections. Tianshanbeilu is not treated as an eastern outpost of a single Andronovo people or a waypoint on a historical Silk Road.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Metallurgy at the Crossroads: New Analyses of Copper-based Objects at Tianshanbeilu, Eastern Xinjiang, China — Cheng Liu, Ruiliang Liu, Pengcheng Zhou, Chun Lu, Zengxin Yang, A. Mark Pollard, Peter Hommel, Jian Ma, Jianfeng Cui, Peter Bray, Jianyi Tong, Jessica Rawson (2020)Provides object-level technological evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical dataset and regional comparison - informs · provides historiography
The existence of Andronovo cultural influence in Xinjiang during the second millennium BC — Jianjun Mei, Colin Shell (1999)Documents the history of the influence interpretation.
Locator: Andronovo influence argument