entity · site_salut_ia
Salūt IA
Fortified hill and settlement complex in the Bisyah-Salūt oasis landscape.
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.
1600 BCE–800 BCE
Precision: range
- informs · provides archaeological observation
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Water Harvesting and Management in the Ancient Oasis of Salūt (Bisya, Sultanate of Oman) — Michele Degli Esposti, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni (2025)Provides the primary site sequence and water-management evidence.
Locator: Sections 2–5; Salūt IA stratigraphy and water systems - informs · locates
Bisyah and Salut: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List Nomination — Sultanate of Oman (2014)Provides the official modern locator.
Locator: Tentative List record and maps
Research description
Salūt IA preserves a transition into Early Iron Age occupation with wells, storage, runoff capture and terraced cultivation. The record does not assign the site to a named kingdom.
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?
Wells, cisterns, runoff capture and terraces are documented; the securely dated falaj horizon at Salūt is later than this release’s primary interval.
- Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Water Harvesting and Management in the Ancient Oasis of Salūt (Bisya, Sultanate of Oman)
supports · Water-system results and falaj chronology discussion
Evidence and sources
- supports · provides archaeological observation
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age Water Harvesting and Management in the Ancient Oasis of Salūt (Bisya, Sultanate of Oman) — Michele Degli Esposti, Mauro Cremaschi, Andrea Zerboni (2025)Provides the primary site sequence and water-management evidence.
Locator: Sections 2–5; Salūt IA stratigraphy and water systems - supports · locates
Bisyah and Salut: UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List Nomination — Sultanate of Oman (2014)Provides the official modern locator.
Locator: Tentative List record and maps
Referenced records
- Oman Hajar and interior oases · entity
- Geography assertion for site_salut_ia · geography assertion