entity · reg_horn_coast
Horn of Africa coastal corridors
Research frame for evidence-bearing coastal zones from the Gulf of Tadjoura toward Somaliland and Somalia.
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.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides primary evidence
Sabaeans on the Somali Coast — Alessia Prioletta, Christian Julien Robin, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Iwona Gajda, Khayr H. Nuʿmān (2021)Provides endpoint evidence for South Arabian-language presence on the coast.
Locator: pp. 328–339; reported inscriptions and context critique - informs · contextualizes
Mummified Baboons Reveal the Far Reach of Early Egyptian Mariners — Nathaniel J. Dominy, Salima Ikram, Gillian L. Moritz, Patrick V. Wheatley, John N. Christensen, Jonathan W. Chipman, Paul L. Koch (2020)Supports broad southern Red Sea connections, not a site-level route.
Locator: Results and source-zone map
Research description
The corridor is not a continuous route or ethnic territory. The structured record is deliberately sparse before the eighth-century Sabaic horizon because direct archaeological publication is limited.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Sparse or uneven fieldwork
Marks regions or phases where survey, excavation, preservation or publication is too uneven for dense reconstruction.
Why does this record have this property?
The endpoint inscription horizon is important, but earlier settlement, anchorage and cabotage evidence is not yet sufficiently published for a dense timeline.
- Sabaeans on the Somali Coast
critiques interpretation · Provenance discussion
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Mummified Baboons Reveal the Far Reach of Early Egyptian Mariners — Nathaniel J. Dominy, Salima Ikram, Gillian L. Moritz, Patrick V. Wheatley, John N. Christensen, Jonathan W. Chipman, Paul L. Koch (2020)Supports broad southern Red Sea connections, not a site-level route.
Locator: Results and source-zone map - supports · provides primary evidence
Sabaeans on the Somali Coast — Alessia Prioletta, Christian Julien Robin, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Iwona Gajda, Khayr H. Nuʿmān (2021)Provides endpoint evidence for South Arabian-language presence on the coast.
Locator: pp. 328–339; reported inscriptions and context critique