causal hypothesis · hyp_yemen_irrigation_antecedents_enable_later_intensification
Local Bronze Age irrigation antecedents enabled later highland and valley intensification
Knowledge of channels, soils, flood capture and cultivation accumulated locally before the securely historical South Arabian kingdoms and provided a technical base for later expansion.
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Knowledge of channels, soils, flood capture and cultivation accumulated locally before the securely historical South Arabian kingdoms and provided a technical base for later expansion.chronology test
Bronze Age channels and cultivated soils must be stratigraphically earlier than later monumental systems, while gaps or redesigns should remain visible rather than assumed away.geography test
The mechanism must be tested separately at Ma’layba, Bayḥān and Ma'rib instead of treating Yemen as one hydraulic system.supporting evidence
- Provides an excavated antecedent.
- Provides a long valley sequence.
- Provides broad geoarchaeological evidence.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen — Vittoria Buffa (2007)Provides an excavated antecedent.
Locator: Bronze Age irrigation channels - supports · provides archaeological observation
Archaeopedological Analyses around a Neolithic Hearth and the Beginning of Sabaean Irrigation in the Oasis of Ma’rib (Ramlat as-Sab’atayn, Yemen) — Peter Kühn, Dana Pietsch, Iris Gerlach (2010)Provides broad geoarchaeological evidence.
Locator: Early cultivated soils and irrigation deposits
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Other source context
- informs · proposes interpretation
Settlement Discontinuities in Southwestern Arabia during the Middle and Late Holocene: The Bayḥān (Yemen) Region — Jean-François Breton, Brigitte Coque-Delhuille, Christopher Edens (2023)Provides a long valley sequence.
Locator: Irrigation development and settlement discontinuity