geography assertion · geo_desc_eastern_caspian
Geography assertion for geo_eastern_caspian_dehistan
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Geography and uncertainty
geometry type
coastal_plain_descriptorcoordinate status
no_geometrycoordinate confidence
lowvalid from
- era
- BCE
- year
- 1600
valid to
- era
- BCE
- year
- 800
explanation
A non-geometric descriptor for a sparsely dated settlement and irrigation landscape. Absence of points is not absence of occupation.uncertainty warning
No geometry supplied because the source does not define defensible vertices or a fixed ancient boundary.Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Vehrkana and Dehistan: Late farming communities of South-West Turkmenistan from the Iron Age to the Islamic period — Olivier Lecomte (1999)Supports the non-geometric spatial description.
Locator: Settlement and irrigation synthesis
Referenced records
- Eastern Caspian and Dehistan plain · entity