Chariots in the Eurasian Steppe: a Bayesian approach to the emergence of horse-drawn transport in the early second millennium BC

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Antiquity, vol. 94, no. 374, 361-380

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• entity Sintashta-Petrovka legacy and comparison frame
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · dates · Bayesian chronology of early chariot contexts

  Provides the chariot chronology.

• event Earliest secure spoke-wheeled chariot contexts in the southern Urals
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · Bayesian model and Kamennyj Ambar-5 result

  Provides the secure chariot chronology.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · Bayesian model and Kamennyj Ambar-5 result

  Provides the secure chariot chronology.

• relationship Research record — associated with
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · Bayesian model and Kamennyj Ambar-5 result

  Provides the secure chariot chronology.

• relationship Earliest secure spoke-wheeled chariot contexts in the southern Urals — chronologically precedes — Horse-control equipment in a Tauturgen mortuary context
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · 1950-1880 BCE secure contexts

  Provides the earlier date.

• date assertion Sintashta-Petrovka legacy and comparison frame — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · dates · Bayesian chronology of early chariot contexts

  Provides the chariot chronology.

• date assertion Earliest secure spoke-wheeled chariot contexts in the southern Urals — date assertion
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  informs · dates · Bayesian model and Kamennyj Ambar-5 result

  Provides the secure chariot chronology.

• relationship Sintashta-Petrovka legacy and comparison frame — generally precedes — Alakul tradition
  Evidence confidence: ◈ moderate
  informs · dates · Sintashta chronology

  Provides the earlier frame.

• claim A cheekpiece demonstrates horse-control equipment but does not by itself prove chariot use, mounted riding or a chariot-warrior identity.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · contextualizes · Criteria and dates for secure chariot contexts

  Provides the comparative standard.

• claim The earliest secure spoke-wheeled chariot chronology depends on directly dated southern Ural contexts rather than isolated object resemblance.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · dates · Bayesian chronology of secure contexts

  Provides the chronological baseline.

• claim The spread of the DOM2 horse lineage does not directly date riding, traction, chariot use or herd management in Central Asia.
  Evidence confidence: ◈ high
  supports · dates · Secure vehicle contexts

  Provides an independent technology chronology.