event · evt_ojakly_mobile_oasis_interaction
Mobile pastoralist occupation and ceramic production at Ojakly
A mobile settlement includes a kiln and ceramic technologies connected to oasis production traditions.
What is the evidence?
observation
A mobile settlement includes a kiln and ceramic technologies connected to oasis production traditions.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.
1950 BCE–1500 BCE
Precision: range
highContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Ojakly: A Late Bronze Age mobile pastoralist site in the Murghab Region, Turkmenistan — Lynne M. Rouse, Barbara Cerasetti (2014)Provides the primary evidence.
Locator: Excavation, chronology and mobile-site interpretation - informs · provides scientific evidence
Not just 'nomadic jars': The Late Bronze Age ceramic assemblage from the mobile pastoralist site of Ojakly, Murghab region, Turkmenistan — Lynne M. Rouse, Katherine M. Grillo, Roberta Piermartiri, Eleonora Rotondaro, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Giuseppe Maria Bargossi, Barbara Cerasetti (2019)Supports transmitted craft practice.
Locator: Ceramic manufacture and technological analysis
Interpretation and caveats
Ojakly records intertwined mobility and craft knowledge rather than a sealed boundary between urban oasis people and external nomads.
Event context
Classification
Event type: mobile pastoralist occupation and craft
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Ojakly, Post-BMAC Murghab communities, Central Asian oasis-steppe interfaces
Why it matters to the timeline
The site directly addresses mobility, craft transmission and the oasis-steppe interface in Turkmenistan.
Research notes
- Provides the primary evidence. Role: provides archaeological observation. Locator: Excavation, chronology and mobile-site interpretation.
- Supports transmitted craft practice. Role: provides scientific evidence. Locator: Ceramic manufacture and technological analysis.
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)Provides the primary evidence.
Locator: Excavation, chronology and mobile-site interpretation - informs · provides scientific evidence
Not just 'nomadic jars': The Late Bronze Age ceramic assemblage from the mobile pastoralist site of Ojakly, Murghab region, Turkmenistan — Lynne M. Rouse, Katherine M. Grillo, Roberta Piermartiri, Eleonora Rotondaro, Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Giuseppe Maria Bargossi, Barbara Cerasetti (2019)Supports transmitted craft practice.
Locator: Ceramic manufacture and technological analysis
Referenced records
- Central Asian oasis-steppe interfaces · entity
- Post-BMAC Murghab communities · entity
- Ojakly · entity