authoritative_site_and_landscape_summary · src_unesco_wadi_howar
Wadi Hower National Park – Gala Abou Ahmed
UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Republic of the Sudan · 2022
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- UNESCO World Heritage Centre
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- entity Handessi Horizon communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (iii) and (v) settlement history
Provides wider landscape and chronology context.
- date assertion Handessi Horizon communities — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · Criterion (iii) and (v) settlement history
Provides wider landscape and chronology context.
- entity Gala Abu AhmedEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Gala Abu Ahmed and Wadi Howar summary
Places the site within the wider landscape.
- date assertion Gala Abu Ahmed — date assertioninforms · contextualizes · Gala Abu Ahmed and Wadi Howar summary
Places the site within the wider landscape.
- event Handessi Horizon adaptation to increasing aridityEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (iii), increasing aridity and end-second-millennium settlement change
Provides wider landscape context.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: highinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (iii), increasing aridity and end-second-millennium settlement change
Provides wider landscape context.
- event Lower Wadi Howar shifts from settlement area toward intermittent thoroughfare useEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (v); communication-route synthesis
Provides interregional context and site density.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (v); communication-route synthesis
Provides interregional context and site density.
- event Possible ninth-century BCE use at Gala Abu AhmedEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Criteria (ii)–(iii); Gala Abu Ahmed and lower Wadi Howar summary
Places the site in the wider landscape without supplying a precise construction date.
- relationship Research record — associated withEvidence confidence: lowinforms · contextualizes · Criteria (ii)–(iii); Gala Abu Ahmed and lower Wadi Howar summary
Places the site in the wider landscape without supplying a precise construction date.
- causal hypothesis Aridification contributed to Wadi Howar mobility reorganizationEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Criterion (iii); end-second-millennium permanent settlement decline
Provides a wider synthesis.
- relationship Handessi Horizon communities — used — Geography assertion for arch_handessi_horizon_communitiesEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · contextualizes · Criteria (iii) and (v)
Provides the wider landscape context.
- date assertion Possible ninth-century BCE use at Gala Abu Ahmed — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowinforms · dates · Criteria (ii)–(iii); Gala Abu Ahmed and lower Wadi Howar summary
Places the site in the wider landscape without supplying a precise construction date.
- date assertion Handessi Horizon adaptation to increasing aridity — date assertionEvidence confidence: moderateinforms · dates · Criterion (iii), increasing aridity and end-second-millennium settlement change
Provides wider landscape context.
- date assertion Lower Wadi Howar shifts from settlement area toward intermittent thoroughfare use — date assertionEvidence confidence: lowinforms · dates · Criterion (v); communication-route synthesis
Provides interregional context and site density.
- claim Wadi Howar can be represented as a broad interaction and movement corridor, but not as a precisely traced Bronze Age commercial road.Evidence confidence: highsupports · supports assignment and caveat · Criteria (iii) and (v); more than 2,400 sites and communication-route synthesis
Supports broad interaction and cautions against overprecision.