entity · reg_yemen_highlands
Yemen highlands
Analytical search region for highland settlements, cultivation, water management and pastoral-sedentary interaction.
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 · supports distribution
The Archaeology of the Yemen High Plains: A Preliminary Chronology — Tony J. Wilkinson, Christopher Edens, McGuire Gibson (1997)Defines the surveyed highland evidence base and its chronological limits.
Locator: pp. 99–142; survey zones and chronology - informs · contextualizes
Holocene Paleoclimates of Southern Arabia from Lacustrine Deposits of the Dhamar Highlands, Yemen — Caroline P. Davies (2006)Provides environmental context without defining a political region.
Locator: pp. 454–464; highland lacustrine records
Research description
This record is a modern research frame, not an ancient border. It groups source-linked highland evidence without projecting Yemen, Sabaʾ or later administrative units backward.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Holocene Paleoclimates of Southern Arabia from Lacustrine Deposits of the Dhamar Highlands, Yemen — Caroline P. Davies (2006)Provides environmental context without defining a political region.
Locator: pp. 454–464; highland lacustrine records - supports · supports distribution
The Archaeology of the Yemen High Plains: A Preliminary Chronology — Tony J. Wilkinson, Christopher Edens, McGuire Gibson (1997)Defines the surveyed highland evidence base and its chronological limits.
Locator: pp. 99–142; survey zones and chronology