claim · claim_material_culture_not_ethnicity
Ceramic, mortuary and metallurgical taxonomies in this package do not automatically identify ethnic, linguistic or political communities.
Ceramic, mortuary and metallurgical taxonomies in this package do not automatically identify ethnic, linguistic or political communities.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · critiques interpretation
Archaeology and language: the Indo-Iranians — C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (2002)Directly critiques one-to-one archaeological and linguistic identifications.
Locator: Full article and published discussion - supports · critiques interpretation
An Imagined Past? Nomadic Narratives in Central Asian Archaeology — Robert N. Spengler III, Alicia Ventresca Miller, Tekla Schmaus, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Bryan K. Miller, Shevan Wilkin, William T. T. Taylor, Yuqi Li, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin (2021)Shows how broad categories can be reified in modern narratives.
Locator: Discussion of archaeological identity narratives
Contradicting sources
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Other source context
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Referenced records
- Andronovo-family classifications · entity
- Chust culture · entity
- Yaz I / Early Iron Age 1 horizon · entity
- Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex / Oxus Civilization · entity
- Tazabagyab tradition · entity