entity · landscape_marib_irrigation_oasis
Ma'rib irrigation oasis antecedents
Geoarchaeological record of irrigation and cultivated soils around Ma'rib before and during early historical Sabaean development.
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.
2500 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · 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 the geoarchaeological evidence and broad calibrated range.
Locator: pp. 1305–1310; palaeosols and irrigation onset
Research description
The landscape record preserves broad evidence for irrigation beginning sometime between the late third and early first millennia BCE. It is not a date for the Great Dam’s later monumental form or a particular king.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Water management without secure falaj attribution
Marks wells, channels, runoff capture, terraces or irrigation whose date does not securely establish a falaj.
Why does this record have this property?
Geoarchaeological evidence supports early irrigation but not a precise ruler, dam phase or later hydraulic terminology.
Evidence and sources
- 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 the geoarchaeological evidence and broad calibrated range.
Locator: pp. 1305–1310; palaeosols and irrigation onset
Referenced records
- Yemen highlands · entity