property · prop_water_management_not_secure_falaj
Water management without secure falaj attribution
Marks wells, channels, runoff capture, terraces or irrigation whose date does not securely establish a falaj.
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 property protects the distinction between broad water management and the specific underground or channelized systems later called aflaj. It prevents later technology chronologies from being projected backward.
Evidence and sources
- informs · critiques interpretation
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Water Harvesting and Management in the Ancient Oasis of Salūt (Bisya, Sultanate of Oman) — Michele Degli Esposti, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni (2025)Explicitly separates Early Iron water systems from the later secure falaj horizon.
Locator: Discussion of wells, water harvesting and securely dated later aflaj - supports · provides archaeological observation
Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen — Vittoria Buffa (2007)Provides earlier channel evidence without Sabaean or falaj attribution.
Locator: Irrigation-channel chapters