property · prop_srsc1_fortified_highland_center
Fortified highland centre
A settlement with defensible elevated position and substantial fortification evidence.
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 assignment records architecture and topography. It does not by itself prove a capital, kingdom, permanent frontier, or centralized territorial state.
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines and supports
Early Complex Societies in Southern Caucasia: A Preliminary Report on the 2002 Investigations by Project ArAGATS on the Tsakahovit Plain, Republic of Armenia — Adam T. Smith, Ruben S. Badalyan, Pavel Avetisyan, Mkrtich Zardaryan, Armine Hayrapetyan, Leah Minc, Belinda Monahan (2004)Source linked to property record prop_srsc1_fortified_highland_center.
Locator: Fortress and regional settlement discussion - contextualizes · contextualizes
Highland Fortress-Polities and Their Settlement Systems in the Southern Caucasus — Emily Hammer (2014)Source linked to property record prop_srsc1_fortified_highland_center.
Locator: Fortress settlement systems