entity · site_dzharkutan
Dzharkutan / Jarkutan
Also known as: Jarkutan, Jarqo'ton
A large settlement and cemetery complex central to the Sapalli-Molali and later transition sequence.
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.
2000 BCE–1000 BCE
Precision: range
moderateWorking range preserves source uncertainty and should be refined with site-level dates.
- informs · contextualizes
Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an overview — Bertille Lyonnet, Nadezhda A. Dubova (2021)Provides broad chronological placement.
Locator: Bactrian settlement sequence - informs · provides scientific evidence
Animal exploitation in the oases: an archaeozoological review of Iron Age sites in southern Central Asia — Johanna Lhuillier, Marjan Mashkour (2017)Supports economic continuity and variation.
Locator: Archaeozoological comparison and phase discussion
Research description
The site shows long-term occupation and changing economic and mortuary practices across the second millennium BCE. No single destruction or migration event is assumed to explain the entire transition.
Evidence and sources
- informs · contextualizes
Questioning the Oxus Civilization or Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Culture (BMAC): an overview — Bertille Lyonnet, Nadezhda A. Dubova (2021)Provides broad chronological placement.
Locator: Bactrian settlement sequence - informs · provides scientific evidence
Animal exploitation in the oases: an archaeozoological review of Iron Age sites in southern Central Asia — Johanna Lhuillier, Marjan Mashkour (2017)Supports economic continuity and variation.
Locator: Archaeozoological comparison and phase discussion