entity · site_malayba
Ma’layba
Bronze Age highland settlement with excavated dwellings and irrigation channels.
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.
2200 BCE–1300 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen — Vittoria Buffa (2007)Provides the principal excavation evidence.
Locator: Site sequence, dwelling and irrigation-channel chapters - informs · dates
Excavations at Ma'layba and Sabir, Republic of Yemen: Radiocarbon Datings in the Period 1900 to 800 cal BC — Jochen Görsdorf, Burkhard Vogt (2001)Provides calibrated radiocarbon dates.
Locator: pp. 1353–1361; Ma’layba samples
Research description
Ma’layba provides direct evidence for settlement and water management before the securely historical South Arabian polities. Its irrigation is treated as a local antecedent, not an early Sabaean system.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Water management without secure falaj attribution
Marks wells, channels, runoff capture, terraces or irrigation whose date does not securely establish a falaj.
Why does this record have this property?
Excavated Bronze Age channels demonstrate water management but are not evidence for a named Sabaean institution or the specific falaj technology.
- Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen
provides archaeological observation · Irrigation-channel chapters
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Ma’layba et l’Age du Bronze du Yémen — Vittoria Buffa (2007)Provides the principal excavation evidence.
Locator: Site sequence, dwelling and irrigation-channel chapters - supports · dates
Excavations at Ma'layba and Sabir, Republic of Yemen: Radiocarbon Datings in the Period 1900 to 800 cal BC — Jochen Görsdorf, Burkhard Vogt (2001)Provides calibrated radiocarbon dates.
Locator: pp. 1353–1361; Ma’layba samples
Referenced records
- Yemen highlands · entity