ranked model · model_transjordanian_polity_formation
Moab, Ammon, and Edom formation
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.
Model comparison
question
How should settlement growth, industry, and later ethnopolitical labels be related in Transjordan?tests
- high-resolution surveys
- radiocarbon at early plateau sites
- administrative inscriptions
- political-control indicators distinct from exchange
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
The Southern Levant (Transjordan) during the Iron Age I Period — Larry G. Herr (2014)Common baseline.
Locator: regional synthesis - informs · proposes interpretation
Moab in the Iron Age: Hegemony, Polity, Archaeology — Bruce Routledge (2004)Moab trajectory.
Locator: Moab - informs · contextualizes
Ammon — Randall W. Younker (2014)Ammon trajectory.
Locator: Ammon - informs · proposes interpretation
The Formation of Edom: A Critical Reassessment — Piotr Bienkowski (2022)Edom trajectory.
Locator: Edom
Referenced records
- Iron I settlement growth on the Moab plateau · event
- Emergence of Ammonite political organization · event
- Emergence of the Edomite polity · event
- Polycentric Arabah copper-production model · causal hypothesis