entity · site_sabir
Sabir
Major excavated settlement on Yemen’s southern coastal plain with a second-millennium to early first-millennium 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.
1500 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The Sabir Culture and Coastal Yemen during the Second Millennium BC: The Present State of Discussion — Burkhard Vogt, Alexandr V. Sedov (1998)Provides site and assemblage discussion.
Locator: pp. 261–270 - 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 dates.
Locator: pp. 1353–1361; Sabir samples
Research description
Sabir anchors a coastal archaeological sequence and the modern ‘Sabir culture’ label. The site does not define a coast-wide people or state.
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
The Sabir Culture and Coastal Yemen during the Second Millennium BC: The Present State of Discussion — Burkhard Vogt, Alexandr V. Sedov (1998)Provides site and assemblage discussion.
Locator: pp. 261–270 - 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 dates.
Locator: pp. 1353–1361; Sabir samples
Referenced records
- Tihama coastal plain · entity
- Yemen southern and western coasts · entity