entity · arch_vakhsh
Classical Vakhsh culture
Also known as: Vaksh culture
A mortuary-focused archaeological classification of southern Tajikistan.
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.
2500 BCE–1700 BCE
Precision: range
moderateRevised chronology is preferred over inherited culture-historical conversion.
- informs · dates
The 'classical Vakhsh culture': a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium in southern Tajikistan — Mike Teufer (2021)Supports the revised earlier chronology.
Locator: Radiocarbon and ceramic reassessment
1700 BCE–1200 BCE
Precision: range
Chronology model: regional or historiographic alternative
very lowRetained as historiography because newer radiocarbon reassessment places most classical Vakhsh material earlier.
- informs · critiques interpretation
The 'classical Vakhsh culture': a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium in southern Tajikistan — Mike Teufer (2021)Documents and revises the older placement.
Locator: Review of earlier chronology
Research description
Recent reassessment places most classical Vakhsh contexts from the later third millennium to about the seventeenth century BCE. The preferred chronology makes Vakhsh mainly an antecedent rather than a core Late Bronze culture; it is not linked directly to Andronovo or Indo-Iranian groups.
Evidence and sources
- informs · dates
The 'classical Vakhsh culture': a Bronze Age culture of the 3rd and early 2nd millennium in southern Tajikistan — Mike Teufer (2021)Supports the revised earlier chronology.
Locator: Radiocarbon and ceramic reassessment