entity · site_sarazm_context
Sarazm earlier metallurgical context
Also known as: Sarazm
An earlier urban and metallurgical site used only to frame the deep history of the Zeravshan corridor.
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.
3500 BCE–2000 BCE
Precision: range
highContextual record outside all or part of the primary interval.
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Metallurgical analysis from Sarazm, Tadjikistan SSR — A. Isakov, Philip L. Kohl, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Robert Maddin (1987)Provides the antecedent evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical samples and site chronology
Research description
Archaeometric work documents metal production and exchange before the release interval. No occupation, route or institutional continuity is assumed after the site's main phases without later evidence.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides scientific evidence
Metallurgical analysis from Sarazm, Tadjikistan SSR — A. Isakov, Philip L. Kohl, C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky, Robert Maddin (1987)Provides the antecedent evidence.
Locator: Metallurgical samples and site chronology