property · prop_iberia1_distribution_not_territory
Distribution is not a political territory
A material or monument distribution does not by itself define a border or state.
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
Apply to maps reconstructed from artefacts, stelae, pottery or site types. Such polygons are analytical distributions or interaction zones with dated uncertainty, not surveyed ancient frontiers.
Evidence and sources
- supports · supports distribution
Late Bronze Age stelae in the Guadalquivir valley and Sierra Morena: spatial distribution and new perspectives of research — Manuel Eleazar Costa Caramé (2013)Provides a dispersed monument corpus.
Locator: pp. 76–94 and maps - supports · supports distribution
Bronze Age Frontiers and Pottery Circulation: Political and Economic Relations at the Northern Fringes of El Argar, Southeast Iberia, ca. 2200–1550 BCE — Adrià Moreno Gil, Carla Garrido García, Bárbara Bonora Soriano, David Gómez-Gras, Roberto Risch (2025)Provides a distributional frontier case.
Locator: regional maps and frontier discussion