primary_archaeological_synthesis · src_egyfull_lehner_2023
Combinatorial Evolution and Heterogeneous Cohabitation at the Giant Pyramids
Mark Lehner · 2023
Reading ancient testimony
Ask who produced the document, for whom, and for what purpose. Distinguish its ancient creation from its modern edition or translation. Survival and excavation shape what can be read today.
Use the linked edition and reliability notes for the author, audience, transmission and limits of this particular source. Missing information is not an assurance of neutrality.
Document and modern access
- Type
- journal_article
- Publication
- Journal of Urban Archaeology, vol. 8, 21–46
Records informed by this source
- relationship Pyramid-project workforces — involved or associated with — Giza pyramid construction and provisioning systemEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- event Giza pyramid construction and provisioning systemEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- date assertion Giza pyramid construction and provisioning system — date assertionEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- relationship Giza pyramid construction and provisioning system — occurred at or involved — GizaEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- relationship Khufu — involved or associated with — Giza pyramid construction and provisioning systemEvidence confidence: highinforms · refines interpretation · Heterogeneous cohabitation model
Supports social diversity and cautions against one workforce category.
- claim The best archaeological evidence does not support a simple model in which the Giza pyramids were built by an undifferentiated mass of enslaved people.Unsupported explanationConfidence in this assessment: highConfidence in this assessment, not in the proposed storysupports · supports claim · Heterogeneous cohabitation
Supports the claim and its qualifications.