Bronze Age World

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

mining_zone_point

coordinate status

source_verified_with_reference_database

coordinate confidence

moderate

valid from

era: BCE
year: 1900

valid to

era: BCE
year: 1400

explanation

Modern geological locality point for the Mushiston deposit, corroborating the archaeological mining-zone location. It does not define the ancient mine extent or distribution route.

uncertainty warning

Deposit locator only; no ancient mining concession, route or political territory is implied.

Evidence and sources

informs · locates
Mushiston Sn deposit locality record — Mindat.org contributors
Provides the modern deposit coordinate.

Locator: Mindat locality coordinate 67.97167 E, 39.31 N
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)
Connects the locality to dated Bronze Age production.

Locator: Archaeological mining and smelting zone

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Referenced records

Mushiston mining and smelting zone · entity