property · prop_archaeological_label_not_ethnicity
Archaeological label, not ethnicity
Marks a modern archaeological phase or assemblage that must not be treated as an ancient people.
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
Applied where material-culture or chronological labels organize evidence but do not establish self-designation, language, ancestry, political unity or continuity into modern identity.
Evidence and sources
- informs · critiques interpretation
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)Shows why chronological and material labels must remain separate from ethnic and colonial narratives.
Locator: pp. 329–392; terminology and indigenous-development discussion - informs · contextualizes
The Sabir Culture and Coastal Yemen during the Second Millennium BC: The Present State of Discussion — Burkhard Vogt, Alexandr V. Sedov (1998)Provides a regional example of a modern archaeological label.
Locator: pp. 261–270; Sabir culture discussion