entity · geo_eastern_caspian_dehistan
Eastern Caspian and Dehistan plain
A coastal-plain and piedmont research frame for Archaic Dehistan settlement and water-management questions.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
moderateWorking range preserves source uncertainty and should be refined with site-level dates.
- 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 eastern Caspian research frame.
Locator: Regional settlement and irrigation synthesis
Research description
Evidence remains uneven and broad phase labels should not be converted into uninterrupted occupation or a single territorial polity. The area is included despite sparse securely dated points; blank map space would misrepresent the archaeological record.
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 eastern Caspian research frame.
Locator: Regional settlement and irrigation synthesis
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for geo_eastern_caspian_dehistan · geography assertion