event · evt_togolok_1_diverse_agriculture
Diverse agriculture and mixed food production at Togolok 1
Excavated plant remains document diverse cereals and pulses within a mixed agropastoral economy.
What is the evidence?
observation
Excavated plant remains document diverse cereals and pulses within a mixed agropastoral economy.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.
2300 BCE–1700 BCE
Precision: range
highContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300-1700 B.C.) — Traci N. Billings, Barbara Cerasetti, Luca Forni, Roberto Arciero, Rita Dal Martello, Marialetizia Carra, Lynne M. Rouse, Nicole Boivin, Robert N. Spengler III (2022)Provides the direct food-production evidence.
Locator: Archaeobotanical contexts and 2300-1700 BCE chronology
Interpretation and caveats
Togolok 1 provides an antecedent showing that Murghab subsistence was varied before the post-BMAC transition.
Event context
Classification
Event type: mixed agropastoral food production
Evidence layer: archaeological
Timeline role: regional core
People and places
Locations: Togolok 1, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex / Oxus Civilization, Murghab Delta and Margiana oasis system
Why it matters to the timeline
Although mainly earlier than 1600 BCE, the site directly frames the agricultural baseline from which Murghab change is assessed.
Research notes
- Provides the direct food-production evidence. Role: provides scientific evidence. Locator: Archaeobotanical contexts and 2300-1700 BCE chronology.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Agriculture in the Karakum: An archaeobotanical analysis from Togolok 1, southern Turkmenistan (ca. 2300-1700 B.C.) — Traci N. Billings, Barbara Cerasetti, Luca Forni, Roberto Arciero, Rita Dal Martello, Marialetizia Carra, Lynne M. Rouse, Nicole Boivin, Robert N. Spengler III (2022)Provides the direct food-production evidence.
Locator: Archaeobotanical contexts and 2300-1700 BCE chronology
Referenced records
- Togolok 1 · entity
- Murghab Delta and Margiana oasis system · entity
- Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex / Oxus Civilization · entity