event · evt_tianshanbeilu_metallurgical_interaction
Tianshanbeilu participates in eastern Tien Shan metallurgical networks
Metals and artefact traditions at Tianshanbeilu show technological links with several eastern and western regions.
What is the evidence?
observation
Metals and artefact traditions at Tianshanbeilu show technological links with several eastern and western regions.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 the technological evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical analyses 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 an influential older model.
Locator: Andronovo influence interpretation
Interpretation and caveats
The assemblage supports exchange and transmitted knowledge but does not establish one Andronovo migration or a linear Silk Road.
Event context
Classification
Event type: metallurgical and material interaction
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: cross regional context
People and places
Locations: Tianshanbeilu cemetery, Tianshanbeilu assemblage, Xinjiang and eastern Tien Shan connection frame
Why it matters to the timeline
Xinjiang is an explicitly requested connected system and the site provides source-backed evidence for eastern technological interaction.
Research notes
- Provides the technological evidence. Role: provides scientific evidence. Locator: Metallurgical analyses and regional comparison.
- Documents an influential older model. Role: provides historiography. Locator: Andronovo influence interpretation.
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 the technological evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical analyses 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 an influential older model.
Locator: Andronovo influence interpretation
Referenced records
- Tianshanbeilu assemblage · entity
- Xinjiang and eastern Tien Shan connection frame · entity
- Tianshanbeilu cemetery · entity