entity · site_mushiston
Mushiston mining and smelting zone
A tin-bearing polymetallic deposit with Bronze Age mining and co-smelting evidence.
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.
1900 BCE–1400 BCE
Precision: range
highProduction chronology is stronger than any downstream route attribution.
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Shiny bronze in glassy matter: an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Mushiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia — Daniel Berger, Gerhard Brugmann, Ronny Friedrich, Joachim Lutz, Hans-Peter Meyer, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Provides the production evidence.
Locator: Archaeometallurgical results and chronology - informs · locates
Mushiston Sn deposit locality record — Mindat.org contributorsProvides coordinate corroboration only.
Locator: Locality coordinate
Research description
Slag and ores support production between about 1900 and 1400 BCE. Mushiston is a proven production zone but not the demonstrated source of every Central Asian or Mediterranean tin-bronze object.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Shiny bronze in glassy matter: an inconspicuous piece of slag from the Bronze Age mining site of Mushiston (Tajikistan) and its significance for the development of tin metallurgy in Central Asia — Daniel Berger, Gerhard Brugmann, Ronny Friedrich, Joachim Lutz, Hans-Peter Meyer, Ernst Pernicka (2022)Provides the production evidence.
Locator: Archaeometallurgical results and chronology - informs · locates
Mushiston Sn deposit locality record — Mindat.org contributorsProvides coordinate corroboration only.
Locator: Locality coordinate
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_mushiston · geography assertion