event · evt_lower_zeravshan_tazabagyab_settlement_cluster
Tazabagyab-labelled settlement cluster in the lower Zeravshan
Published research reports more than twenty settlements and the Gudjaili cemetery in the lower Zeravshan.
What is the evidence?
observation
Published research reports more than twenty settlements and the Gudjaili cemetery in the lower Zeravshan.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.
1500 BCE–1100 BCE
Precision: range
lowWorking range preserves source uncertainty and should be refined with site-level dates.
- informs · supports distribution
Arkheologicheskie Vesti, issue 9: institutional annotation discussing Tazabagyab sites in the lower Zeravshan and Kokcha III — Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (2002)Provides the published minimum distribution and historiography.
Locator: Institutional summary of more than twenty settlements and Gudjaili cemetery
Interpretation and caveats
The distribution indicates sustained local settlement and interaction, while the older claim of a single migrant population remains unproven.
Event context
Classification
Event type: settlement distribution and agropastoral interaction
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Tazabagyab tradition, Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor
Why it matters to the timeline
The event provides required Zeravshan coverage and counters depictions of the desert-edge landscape as uninhabited.
Research notes
- Provides the published minimum distribution and historiography. Role: supports distribution. Locator: Institutional summary of more than twenty settlements and Gudjaili cemetery.
Evidence and sources
- informs · supports distribution
Arkheologicheskie Vesti, issue 9: institutional annotation discussing Tazabagyab sites in the lower Zeravshan and Kokcha III — Institute for the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences (2002)Provides the published minimum distribution and historiography.
Locator: Institutional summary of more than twenty settlements and Gudjaili cemetery
Referenced records
- Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor · entity
- Tazabagyab tradition · entity