geography assertion · geo_desc_xinjiang
Geography assertion for geo_xinjiang_eastern_tien_shan_link
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
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Geography and uncertainty
geometry type
cross_regional_descriptorcoordinate status
no_geometrycoordinate confidence
lowvalid from
- era
- BCE
- year
- 1800
valid to
- era
- BCE
- year
- 800
explanation
A non-geometric descriptor for object, metallurgical and crop connections. It is not a Silk Road line or Andronovo frontier.uncertainty warning
No geometry supplied because the source does not define defensible vertices or a fixed ancient boundary.Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
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)Supports the non-geometric spatial description.
Locator: Metallurgical and exchange discussion