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geography assertion · geo_moab_plateau_settlement_distribution_1100_850

Geography assertion for place_moab_plateau

Evidence confidence: low
Awaiting expert reviewSouthern Levant and biblical-period peoples research expansion
Review and provenance

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Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.

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Geography and uncertainty

geometry type

dated_polygon

coordinate status

research_reconstruction

coordinate confidence

low

reconstruction method

Conservative envelope of the plateau-centred settlement system discussed in archaeological synthesis. The later Mesha text provides context but was not used as a direct eleventh-century border map.

valid from

era
BCE
year
1100

valid to

era
BCE
year
850

explanation

Represents a settlement and emergent political landscape on the Moab plateau. It does not assert continuous direct control or the borders narrated in later texts.

uncertainty warning

This polygon is a conservative research envelope derived from published distributions and site evidence. It is not a surveyed frontier, tribal allotment, modern border, or claim of exclusive sovereignty.

Evidence and sources

  • informs · supports distribution
    Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology — Bruce Routledge (2004)

    Supports a plateau-centred settlement and polity-formation model with uncertain margins.


    Locator: regional archaeology and polity synthesis
  • informs · provides primary evidence
    The Mesha Inscription and Moab — Andrew Dearman (1989)

    Provides later ninth-century textual geography that must not be projected unchanged backward.


    Locator: Mesha Stele lines 1-34 and historical commentary

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