entity · geo_zeravshan_corridor
Zeravshan Valley and mountain corridor
A valley and mountain research frame joining agricultural basins, mining zones and routes across the western Pamir-Alay.
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
moderateProduction chronology is stronger than any downstream route attribution.
- informs · contextualizes
Shiny bronze in glassy matter: an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Mushiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia — Daniel Berger, Gerhard Brugmann, Ronny Friedrich, Joachim Lutz, Hans-Peter Meyer, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Supports the mining and mountain-corridor frame.
Locator: Site setting and regional metallurgy discussion
Research description
Sarazm is an earlier antecedent, while Mushiston and later lower Zeravshan assemblages illuminate metallurgy and interaction during the second millennium BCE. The corridor label represents possible movement landscapes, not a fixed road or political frontier.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Shiny bronze in glassy matter: an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Mushiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia — Daniel Berger, Gerhard Brugmann, Ronny Friedrich, Joachim Lutz, Hans-Peter Meyer, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Supports the mining and mountain-corridor frame.
Locator: Site setting and regional metallurgy discussion
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for geo_zeravshan_corridor · geography assertion