entity · site_early_tulkhar
Early Tulkhar necropolis
A mortuary complex used in debates about cremation, Bishkent chronology and southward migration.
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.
3000 BCE–2000 BCE
Precision: range
moderateRevised chronology is preferred over inherited culture-historical conversion.
- informs · dates
Materials of the Early Tulkhar necropolis in the light of the hypothesis of Andronovo population migration to the south: problems of chronology — Svetlana V. Sotnikova (2024)Provides the chronological critique.
Locator: New calibrated dates and migration-hypothesis test
Research description
New dates place key cremation contexts much earlier than the second-millennium Fedorovo comparison used in older models. The site is included as a falsification case for chronology, not as a core 1600-800 BCE event.
Evidence and sources
- informs · dates
Materials of the Early Tulkhar necropolis in the light of the hypothesis of Andronovo population migration to the south: problems of chronology — Svetlana V. Sotnikova (2024)Provides the chronological critique.
Locator: New calibrated dates and migration-hypothesis test