property · prop_iberia1_literary_tradition_not_event_date
Literary tradition, not an excavated event date
A later text or tradition refers to an earlier event but does not date it archaeologically.
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 where surviving testimony is substantially later than its proposed referent. The tradition is real evidence for memory, historiography or identity but cannot replace stratigraphy or scientific dating.
Evidence and sources
- supports · critiques interpretation
La fundación arcaica de Gadir. La construcción historiográfica de una ciudad ¿real o inventada? — Ana M.ª Niveau de Villedary y Mariñas (2019)Provides the Gadir case.
Locator: historiographic foundation analysis - supports · provides primary evidence
Histories 3.115: the Cassiterides and tin — HerodotusShows explicit ancient uncertainty in a later tin geography tradition.
Locator: Histories 3.115