property assignment · pa_dmt_chronology_contested
pa_dmt_chronology_contested
Dʿmt’s date and scale remain contested.
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.
Research description
The name is attested, but the earliest date, territorial coherence and relationship to local sequences require competing models.
Evidence and sources
- informs · critiques interpretation
Relations between Southern Arabia and the Northern Horn of Africa during the Last Millennium BC — David W. Phillipson (2011)Questions a large unified state and conventional chronology.
Locator: pp. 257–267 - informs · contextualizes
The Pre-Aksumite Period: Indigenous Origins and Development in the Horn of Africa — A. Catherine D’Andrea, Lynn Welton, Andrea Manzo, Helina S. Woldekiros, Steven A. Brandt, Alemseged Beldados, Elizabeth A. Peterson, Laurie A. Nixon-Darcus, Michela Gaudiello, Shannon R. Wood, Habtamu Mekonnen, Stephen Batiuk, Yemane Meresa, Abel Ruiz-Giralt, Carla Lancelotti, Abebe Mengistu Taffere, Lucas M. Johnson (2023)Provides current local sequence evidence.
Locator: Political organization and chronology
Referenced records
- Chronology contested · property
- Dʿmt · entity