entity · site_chap_i
Chap I farmstead
A high-altitude farmstead with crops, livestock, processing tools and local irrigation features.
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.
1065 BCE–825 BCE
Precision: range
highChap has direct dates but local features should not be projected valley-wide.
- informs · provides archaeological observation
High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan: New Excavations of the Chap Farmstead (1065-825 cal BCE) — Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Taylor Hermes, Elina Ananyevskaya, Mindaugas Grikpedis, Elise Luneau, Inga Merkyte, Lynne M. Rouse (2020)Provides the farmstead chronology and irrigation evidence.
Locator: Excavation, radiocarbon and landscape results - informs · provides scientific evidence
Carbon and oxygen stable isotopic evidence for diverse sheep and goat husbandry strategies amid a Final Bronze Age farming milieu in the Kyrgyz Tian Shan — Taylor R. Hermes, Clemens Schmid, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (2022)Provides animal-management evidence.
Locator: Incremental isotope results
Research description
Direct dates and environmental studies show farming and varied caprine management at about 2000 m elevation. The site demonstrates one viable highland agropastoral system, not a valley-wide irrigation state.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
High-Altitude Agro-Pastoralism in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan: New Excavations of the Chap Farmstead (1065-825 cal BCE) — Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Taylor Hermes, Elina Ananyevskaya, Mindaugas Grikpedis, Elise Luneau, Inga Merkyte, Lynne M. Rouse (2020)Provides the farmstead chronology and irrigation evidence.
Locator: Excavation, radiocarbon and landscape results - informs · provides scientific evidence
Carbon and oxygen stable isotopic evidence for diverse sheep and goat husbandry strategies amid a Final Bronze Age farming milieu in the Kyrgyz Tian Shan — Taylor R. Hermes, Clemens Schmid, Kubatbek Tabaldiev, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (2022)Provides animal-management evidence.
Locator: Incremental isotope results
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_chap_i · geography assertion