RELEASE_STATUS: FROZEN_VALIDATED
CUTOFF: 2026-07-29T17:33:38+08:00
COVERAGE_OBJECT: 20
OBJECT_SHORT_NAME: INDUS_NORTHWEST_SOUTH_ASIA
REGIONAL_RUNTIME: CIVATLAS.REGIONAL.RUNTIME.V3.0
ROOT_INTEGRITY_PATCH: CIVATLAS.REALITY_CONTINUUM.RUNTIME.V3.3
PARENT_CLOCK: CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.WORLD.MASTER.V1.1
FORMAT: UTF-8 plain text; deterministic machine-readable field blocks
LANGUAGE: English
LICENCE_STATUS: research scaffold; source rights remain with cited holders

PURPOSE:
Canonical regional chronology and Civilisation CAT Scan input for early
South Asian occupation, Mehrgarh, Early/Mature/Late Harappan systems,
post-Harappan transformations, Gandhara and northwest interfaces through
the exact observed cutoff. This is a coordinate object, not a timeless
ethnicity, nation, religion, language or civilisation.

BOUNDARY:
PRIMARY: Indus basin; Baluchistan; Makran; Sindh; Punjab; Haryana-Rajasthan
Harappan zones; Kachchh; Peshawar/Taxila/Swat; Kashmir and adjoining
northwest corridors when functionally evidenced.
INTERFACES: Iranian Plateau, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Gulf/Oman,
Mesopotamia, Gangetic South Asia and the Arabian Sea.
MODERN: modern state borders are represented as dated legal/control layers,
never projected backward.

CANONICAL INHERITANCE:
CIVATLAS.REALITY_CONTINUUM.RUNTIME.V3.3
-> REALITY CONTINUUM / active substrate / nested domain clocks
CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.WORLD.MASTER.V1.1
-> universal W000-W068 synchronisation
CIVATLAS.REGIONAL.RUNTIME.V3.0
-> protected regional fields and operational scan surface
CIVATLAS.CHRONOLOGY.REGION.INDUS_NORTHWEST_SOUTH_ASIA.V3.0
-> Coverage Object 20 evidence and graph release

RUNTIME VERSION RULE:
The newest regional runtime remains V3.0. Reality Continuum V3.3 is a
root-integrity patch inherited above it, not a false regional V3.3.

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00 | ROOT-INTEGRITY RECEIPT AND DOMAIN CONTRACT

ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_DOMAINS:
MATERIAL; GEOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHICAL; SKY_CLIMATE; WATER; BIOSPHERE;
PLANT; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; HUMAN_AGENT; INSTITUTION; INFORMATION; MACHINE.

NESTED_CLOCKS:
PLANETARY_TIME contains GEOLOGICAL_TIME contains ECOLOGICAL_TIME;
HUMAN_DEEP_TIME, ARCHAEOLOGICAL_TIME, TEXTUAL_TIME, STATE_TIME,
HERITAGE_EVIDENCE_TIME and LIVE_CONTROL_TIME remain interoperable but
non-identical.

RELATION PATCH:
RELATION_TYPE and ATTESTATION are independent. A corridor, comparison,
ancestry model or reachable path is not automatically a witnessed
transaction, influence or political relation.

FLOW PATCH:
MATERIAL_TRANSFER; ENERGY_CONVERSION; PROCESS_SUCCESSION;
FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION; INFORMATION_TRANSFER; PERSON_MOVEMENT;
CAPITAL_TRANSFER; AGENT_FLUX.
AGENT_FLUX is restricted to agentic systems. Rivers, drought, sediment,
plants and tectonic plates do not acquire fictional agency.

ROOT LAWS:
INTEGRATION_NON_IDENTITY: integration preserves domain identities.
FUNCTIONAL_PORTABILITY: functions move only with declared dependencies.
TRUE_REVERSE_HYDRA: validation traces repairs backward to substrates and
outward to every materially affected agent.
ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT: geography and ecology are participants, not stage.
DOMAIN_SEPARATION: matter, energy, information, process and agency do not
share one generic flow variable.

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01 | REGIONAL ONTOLOGY AND NON-COLLAPSE RULES

FOUNDATIONAL DISTINCTIONS:
PLACE CONTINUITY != POPULATION CONTINUITY != LANGUAGE CONTINUITY
!= POLITICAL CONTINUITY != RELIGIOUS CONTINUITY
!= MEDIA CONTINUITY != CIVILISATIONAL FUNCTIONAL CONTINUITY.

INDUS-SPECIFIC GUARDRAILS:
INDUS = river/basin coordinate when geological or modern hydrological.
HARAPPAN = archaeological tradition/system when materially evidenced.
MELUHHA = external Mesopotamian name, cautiously correlated.
GANDHARA = changing regional and political-cultural field, not a modern nation.
ARYAN = never used as a biological race; textual, linguistic and historical
uses require source-specific scope.
PAKISTAN / INDIA / AFGHANISTAN = modern state entities only after formation.

CORE NEGATIONS:
UNKNOWN != NONE.
NOT_ATTESTED != DID_NOT_EXIST.
REACHABLE != INTERACTED.
COMPARED != INFLUENCED.
SHARED MATERIAL != SHARED SOVEREIGNTY.
ONE GENOME != ONE CIVILISATION.
ANCESTRY != LANGUAGE, CASTE, RELIGION OR NATION.
URBAN CONTRACTION != POPULATION DISAPPEARANCE.
CONQUEST != INSTANT CONVERSION.
OFFICIAL PLAN != OPERATING CAPABILITY.
CURRENT != PERMANENT.

THREE INDEPENDENT AXES:
CAPABILITY: Foundation 0 -> Stage 1 -> Stage 2 -> Stage 3 -> Stage 4
-> Stage 5 -> Stage 6 -> Stage 7 -> Stage 8.
LIFECYCLE: formation; takeoff; climb; consolidation; cruise; stagnation;
drift; descent; fracture; repair; relaunch.
HABITAT INDEPENDENCE: direct substrate dependence; local buffering;
multi-host support; partial synthetic host;
no false claim of full independence.

ADDITIONAL INDEPENDENT COORDINATES:
SCALE; ZOOM; DEPTH; RESOLUTION; TIME; ENTITY; STATE; LENS.
Query order: Object -> Scale -> Zoom -> Depth -> Resolution -> Lens.

REACH / SURVIVAL / DISTRIBUTION / CLOSURE:
CR0-CR5 capability reach; SR0-SR7 survivable range;
WD0-WD4 world distribution; DC0-DC5 dependency closure;
P0-P6 functional portability. None is inferred from another axis.

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02 | PROTECTED RECORD CONTRACT

FIELD ORDER IS IMMUTABLE:
ENTITY -> ENTITY_TYPE -> EVENT -> TEMPORAL_FORM -> BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY -> WORLD_BANDS -> TIME_ZOOM -> ENTITY_ZOOM -> FUNCTION -> HOST -> CARRIER -> FLOW -> DEPENDENCY -> LINEAGE -> RELATION -> CONTROL_GEOMETRY -> BASEFLOOR_EFFECT -> CAPABILITY -> LIFECYCLE -> MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE -> CAPABILITY_REACH -> SURVIVABLE_RANGE -> WORLD_DISTRIBUTION -> DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE -> MOTION -> EVIDENCE -> CLAIM_STATUS -> UNCERTAINTY -> SOURCE_KEYS -> GRAPH_SEEDS

MOTIVE / FUNCTION / USE / PURPOSE:
These remain separate. When a motive is not directly attested it stays
UNKNOWN even when physical function or later use is well evidenced.

COERCION TYPES:
WARFARE; FORCED_MOVEMENT; CAPTIVITY; TAXATION; POLICING; LAND_AND_WATER
REALLOCATION; DEVELOPMENT_DISPLACEMENT; MARTIAL_LAW; SURVEILLANCE;
STRUCTURAL_DEPENDENCY. Presence, intensity and responsible agent are
evidence-scoped.

HERITAGE RIGHTS STACK:
ORIGIN != TITLE != OWNERSHIP != CUSTODY != RESEARCH_AUTHORITY
!= RITUAL_AUTHORITY != INTERPRETIVE_AUTHORITY != PUBLIC_ACCESS
!= DESCENDANT_OR_COMMUNITY_CONSENT.

THE NOBODY LENS:
Every high-capability record is testable from cleaners, carriers, farmers,
fishers, craft learners, carers, builders, displaced people, anonymous
excavators and receiving ecologies whose names archives suppress.

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03 | WORLD CLOCK AND ACTIVE-SUBSTRATE RECEIPTS

PARENT W068 originally froze 1 January–28 July 2026. The regional child clock preserves W068 and declares a live-tail overlay through the exact cutoff.

W000 | 4.54–4.0 Ga | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W001 | 4.0–2.5 Ga | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W002 | 2.5 Ga–541 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W003 | 541–66 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W004 | 66–7 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W005 | 7–3.3 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W006 | 3.3–2.6 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W007 | 2.6–1.8 Ma | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W008 | 1.8 Ma–800 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W009 | 800–300 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W010 | 300–130 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W011 | 130–70 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W012 | 70–50 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W013 | 50–20 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W014 | 20–11.7 ka | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W015 | 9700–8000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W016 | 8000–6000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W017 | 6000–5000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W018 | 5000–4000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W019 | 4000–3500 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W020 | 3500–3000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W021 | 3000–2500 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W022 | 2500–2000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W023 | 2000–1500 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W024 | 1500–1200 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W025 | 1200–1000 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W026 | 1000–800 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W027 | 800–600 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W028 | 600–500 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W029 | 500–300 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W030 | 300–100 BCE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W031 | 100 BCE–1 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W032 | 1–200 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W033 | 200–400 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W034 | 400–600 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W035 | 600–800 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W036 | 800–1000 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W037 | 1000–1200 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W038 | 1200–1300 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W039 | 1300–1400 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W040 | 1400–1500 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W041 | 1500–1600 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W042 | 1600–1700 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W043 | 1700–1750 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W044 | 1750–1800 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W045 | 1800–1850 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W046 | 1850–1870 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W047 | 1870–1900 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W048 | 1900–1914 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W049 | 1914–1918 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W050 | 1918–1929 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W051 | 1929–1939 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W052 | 1939–1945 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W053 | 1945–1950 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W054 | 1950–1960 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W055 | 1960–1970 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W056 | 1970–1980 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W057 | 1980–1990 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W058 | 1990–2000 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W059 | 2000–2008 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W060 | 2008–2014 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W061 | 2014–2019 CE | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W062 | 2020 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W063 | 2021 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W064 | 2022 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W065 | 2023 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W066 | 2024 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W067 | 2025 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced
W068 | 1 January–28 July 2026 parent band; child live-tail overlay to 29 July 2026 | ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE_RECEIPT | material/geology/geography/sky/water/biosphere/ecology received; human and institutional layers added only where evidenced

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04 | REGIONAL SYSTEM-TRACK REGISTRY

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05 | GRAPH-SEED REGISTRY

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06 | CONNECTOR AND TRANSMISSION QUEUE

INSA.C001 | Bolan Pass
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Iranian Plateau and Afghan highlands
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Kachi Plain and Indus basin
CARRIERS: people, herds, seed, stone, technique
VALVES: water, security, season, political control
ATTESTATION: archaeological convergence and provenience
STATUS: multi-period active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C002 | Khyber Pass
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Kabul basin and Central Asia
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Peshawar basin and Punjab
CARRIERS: armies, migrants, merchants, texts
VALVES: snow, security, tolls, state control
ATTESTATION: textual, archaeological and material
STATUS: recurrent active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C003 | Gomal corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Afghan highlands
DESTINATION_HOSTS: northwest Indus plains
CARRIERS: herds, crops, ceramics, armies
VALVES: pasture, water, fortification
ATTESTATION: archaeological and textual
STATUS: recurrent active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C004 | Makran coastal route
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Iranian and Oman coasts
DESTINATION_HOSTS: lower Indus and Kachchh
CARRIERS: boats, fishers, shells, merchants, armies
VALVES: harbours, monsoon, freshwater, security
ATTESTATION: archaeological and textual
STATUS: recurrent active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C005 | Arabian Sea monsoon route
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Indus-Gujarat ports
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Oman, Dilmun and Mesopotamia
CARRIERS: crews, goods, information, credit
VALVES: winds, vessels, ports, interpreters
ATTESTATION: seals, cuneiform and provenience
STATUS: Bronze Age active; later transformed
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C006 | Indus river corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: delta and lower Indus
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab and mountain tributaries
CARRIERS: boats, grain, people, sediment, information
VALVES: seasonal flow, channel depth, tolls
ATTESTATION: geomorphology, texts and archaeology
STATUS: multi-period active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C007 | Ghaggar-Hakra corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Cholistan-Haryana settlements
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Sutlej-Yamuna interfaces
CARRIERS: people, crops, ceramics, water
VALVES: monsoon flow, channel position, wells
ATTESTATION: settlement survey and geochronology
STATUS: transformed after Harappan period
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C008 | Kachchh-Gujarat craft corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: marine and stone sources
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Indus workshops and cities
CARRIERS: shell, carnelian, cotton, fish
VALVES: extraction, transport, skill, demand
ATTESTATION: provenience and craft debris
STATUS: Harappan active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C009 | Badakhshan lapis corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Badakhshan extraction zones
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Shortugai and Indus workshops
CARRIERS: lapis, carriers, technical knowledge
VALVES: terrain, security, transshipment
ATTESTATION: geological provenience
STATUS: Bronze Age active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C010 | Aravalli-Khetri copper corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: copper sources
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Harappan production nodes
CARRIERS: ore, metal, smith knowledge
VALVES: fuel, transport, recycling
ATTESTATION: archaeometallurgy
STATUS: Bronze Age active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C011 | Oman copper corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Magan-Oman sources
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Indus and Gulf nodes
CARRIERS: copper, vessels, seals
VALVES: maritime capacity, credit, ports
ATTESTATION: compositional and archaeological
STATUS: Bronze Age active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C012 | Dilmun relay
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Bahrain and Gulf ports
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Mesopotamia and Indus nodes
CARRIERS: merchants, seals, goods, messages
VALVES: intermediaries, storage, political access
ATTESTATION: cuneiform and archaeology
STATUS: Bronze Age active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C013 | Helmand interface
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Shahr-i Sokhta and Mundigak
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Baluchistan and Indus
CARRIERS: ceramics, stone, people, technique
VALVES: route security, water, brokers
ATTESTATION: archaeology and provenience
STATUS: fourth-third millennia BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C014 | Oxus interface
ORIGIN_HOSTS: BMAC and Central Asia
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Shortugai and Indus network
CARRIERS: materials, objects, travellers
VALVES: mountain routes, relay exchange
ATTESTATION: archaeological distributions
STATUS: late third-second millennia BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C015 | Steppe population interface
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Central Asian pastoral zones
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Swat and South Asian populations
CARRIERS: people, ancestry, animals, practices
VALVES: ecology, kinship, conflict, adoption
ATTESTATION: ancient DNA and archaeology
STATUS: second millennium BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C016 | Kashmir highland interface
ORIGIN_HOSTS: western Himalaya
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab, Central and Inner Asia
CARRIERS: people, animals, crops, beliefs
VALVES: passes, season, political control
ATTESTATION: archaeology, genetics and texts
STATUS: multi-period active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C017 | Achaemenid imperial connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Iranian imperial core
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Gandara and Hindush
CARRIERS: officials, tribute, soldiers, Aramaic
VALVES: roads, satrapal hosts, coercion
ATTESTATION: royal inscriptions and texts
STATUS: sixth-fourth centuries BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C018 | Macedonian campaign corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Hindu Kush
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Indus and Punjab
CARRIERS: army, supplies, captives, information
VALVES: morale, monsoon, rivers, resistance
ATTESTATION: classical narratives
STATUS: 327-325 BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C019 | Mauryan road network
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Gangetic imperial centres
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Taxila and northwest nodes
CARRIERS: officials, taxes, edicts, merchants
VALVES: road upkeep, governors, security
ATTESTATION: edicts and archaeology
STATUS: fourth-second centuries BCE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C020 | Kharosthi information connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Aramaic-derived script practices
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Gandhari and regional languages
CARRIERS: signs, scribes, manuscripts
VALVES: training, writing surfaces, patronage
ATTESTATION: inscriptions and manuscripts
STATUS: fourth century BCE-fourth century CE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C021 | Buddhist pilgrimage connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Gandharan monasteries
DESTINATION_HOSTS: South, Central and East Asia
CARRIERS: monastics, pilgrims, texts, images
VALVES: patronage, translation, route safety
ATTESTATION: travel texts, art and manuscripts
STATUS: centuries-long active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C022 | Kushan imperial connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Bactria and Central Asia
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Gandhara and northern South Asia
CARRIERS: armies, coins, patronage, goods
VALVES: mints, roads, city hosts
ATTESTATION: coins, inscriptions, archaeology
STATUS: first-third centuries CE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C023 | Silk-road branching network
ORIGIN_HOSTS: South Asian nodes
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Iran, Central Asia and China
CARRIERS: merchants, monks, translators, goods
VALVES: relay nodes, empires, climate
ATTESTATION: texts and archaeology
STATUS: multi-period active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C024 | Arabian conquest connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Makran and Umayyad frontier
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Sindh and Multan
CARRIERS: armies, officials, tax, religion
VALVES: garrisons, treaties, resistance
ATTESTATION: conquest texts, coins, archaeology
STATUS: eighth century CE
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C025 | Persianate court connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Lahore, Multan, Sindh and Delhi
CARRIERS: language, offices, literature, armies
VALVES: patronage, scribal training, politics
ATTESTATION: texts and inscriptions
STATUS: tenth-eighteenth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C026 | Sufi network connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: regional khanqahs and shrines
DESTINATION_HOSTS: households, markets and routes
CARRIERS: teachers, pilgrims, charity, memory
VALVES: patronage, access, lineage claims
ATTESTATION: texts, inscriptions and practice
STATUS: centuries-long active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C027 | Ghaznavid military-fiscal connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Ghazna
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab and northwest cities
CARRIERS: armies, revenue, captives, scholarship
VALVES: garrisons, routes, tribute
ATTESTATION: chronicles, coins and archaeology
STATUS: tenth-twelfth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C028 | Mongol pressure connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Central Asian war systems
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab and Sindh frontiers
CARRIERS: armies, refugees, information
VALVES: fortification, diplomacy, supply
ATTESTATION: chronicles
STATUS: thirteenth century
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C029 | Mughal imperial connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Delhi-Agra-Lahore court system
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab, Sindh, Kashmir and frontier
CARRIERS: officials, revenue, armies, artisans
VALVES: mansabdari, roads, local elites
ATTESTATION: administrative and material records
STATUS: sixteenth-eighteenth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C030 | Sikh confederacy connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Punjab misls
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Lahore and frontier territories
CARRIERS: armed bands, revenue, religious authority
VALVES: alliance, forts, agrarian support
ATTESTATION: textual and numismatic
STATUS: eighteenth century
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C031 | Durrani frontier connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Kandahar-Kabul
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Peshawar, Punjab and Sindh
CARRIERS: armies, tribute, officials
VALVES: campaigns, local allies, supply
ATTESTATION: chronicles and coinage
STATUS: eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C032 | colonial rail connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Karachi and ports
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab and frontier cantonments
CARRIERS: freight, troops, passengers, mail
VALVES: track, fuel, land, tariff
ATTESTATION: engineering and administrative records
STATUS: nineteenth-twentieth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C033 | colonial canal connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Indus tributaries
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Punjab canal colonies
CARRIERS: water, sediment, settlers, capital
VALVES: barrages, allocation, maintenance
ATTESTATION: engineering and land records
STATUS: nineteenth-twentieth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C034 | colonial census connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: imperial offices
DESTINATION_HOSTS: enumerated households
CARRIERS: categories, forms, statistics
VALVES: language, officials, refusal, coercion
ATTESTATION: census archives
STATUS: 1871-1941
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C035 | military recruitment connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Punjab and frontier districts
DESTINATION_HOSTS: imperial war theatres
CARRIERS: soldiers, labour, remittances
VALVES: recruitment institutions, coercion
ATTESTATION: military and household records
STATUS: nineteenth-twentieth centuries
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C036 | Partition corridor
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Punjab, Sindh and Kashmir homes
DESTINATION_HOSTS: India and Pakistan destinations
CARRIERS: refugees, abducted people, property, memory
VALVES: violence, transport, borders, camps
ATTESTATION: testimony and demographic records
STATUS: 1947-1951
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C037 | Indus Waters legal connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: India and Pakistan
DESTINATION_HOSTS: rivers, engineers and users
CARRIERS: notices, designs, data, dispute claims
VALVES: treaty procedures, trust, hydrology
ATTESTATION: treaty and arbitral records
STATUS: 1960-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C038 | Indus Basin engineering connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: reservoirs and barrages
DESTINATION_HOSTS: canals, farms, cities and grid
CARRIERS: water, power, sediment, debt
VALVES: maintenance, allocation, climate
ATTESTATION: engineering and hydrological records
STATUS: 1960s-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C039 | Afghan refugee connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Afghanistan
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and cities
CARRIERS: people, skills, aid, arms exposure
VALVES: border policy, conflict, livelihoods
ATTESTATION: demographic and humanitarian records
STATUS: 1979-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C040 | CPEC logistics connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: China and Arabian Sea
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Pakistan transport and energy nodes
CARRIERS: capital, equipment, workers, data
VALVES: finance, security, local consent
ATTESTATION: contracts and operating records
STATUS: 2013-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C041 | Gwadar gateway
ORIGIN_HOSTS: Arabian Sea
DESTINATION_HOSTS: Balochistan and inland corridors
CARRIERS: cargo, fish, water, capital, security
VALVES: port operation, water, roads, legitimacy
ATTESTATION: operational and community records
STATUS: twenty-first century
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C042 | digital identity connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: state databases
DESTINATION_HOSTS: citizens and service platforms
CARRIERS: credentials, data, eligibility
VALVES: enrolment, network, redress, privacy
ATTESTATION: administrative and audit records
STATUS: twenty-first century
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C043 | AI compute connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: chip and cloud providers
DESTINATION_HOSTS: IndiaAI and Pakistan AI hosts
CARRIERS: compute, models, data, capital
VALVES: power, procurement, skills, governance
ATTESTATION: official status and technical audit
STATUS: 2024-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C044 | heritage research connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: excavated remains and archives
DESTINATION_HOSTS: laboratories, museums and publics
CARRIERS: samples, scans, data, interpretation
VALVES: custody, consent, access, conservation
ATTESTATION: collection and research records
STATUS: 1921-present
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.
INSA.C045 | climate-disaster connector
ORIGIN_HOSTS: atmosphere, ice and monsoon
DESTINATION_HOSTS: rivers, settlements and relief systems
CARRIERS: water, sediment, warnings, aid
VALVES: forecast, infrastructure, trust
ATTESTATION: meteorology and humanitarian records
STATUS: recurrent active
RULE: route reach does not assert use; material transfer does not assert sovereignty.

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07 | IMMUTABLE CHRONOLOGICAL RECORDS

ORDER: evidence-spine order. Evidence-history records retain the ancient subject time and explicitly name their modern publication/custody time.

CA.INSA.000001 | 4.54–4.0 Ga | EARTH AND SOUTH-ASIAN SUBSTRATE BEGIN
ENTITY: Earth and constituent material
ENTITY_TYPE: PLANETARY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Accretion, differentiation and early crust create the material inheritance ultimately carried by the Indian plate and every later regional system.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W000
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: PLANETARY_SYSTEM::EARTH_AND_SOUTH_ASIAN_SUBSTRATE_BEGIN
HOST: Earth and constituent material; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_MODEL
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S008
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000002 | 4.0–2.5 Ga | ARCHAEAN CRATONIC BASE
ENTITY: Dharwar, Singhbhum, Bundelkhand and adjoining cratonic systems
ENTITY_TYPE: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION
EVENT: Long-lived continental crust becomes part of the plate-scale host beneath later South Asian geographies.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W001
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION::ARCHAEAN_CRATONIC_BASE
HOST: Dharwar, Singhbhum, Bundelkhand and adjoining cratonic systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S008,INSA.S009
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000003 | 2.5 Ga–541 Ma | PROTEROZOIC MATERIAL INHERITANCE
ENTITY: Indian continental lithosphere and sedimentary basins
ENTITY_TYPE: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION
EVENT: Crustal assembly, erosion and basin filling create mineral, soil-parent and structural inheritances later mobilised by rivers and people.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W002
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION::PROTEROZOIC_MATERIAL_INHERITANCE
HOST: Indian continental lithosphere and sedimentary basins; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S008,INSA.S009
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000004 | c. 200–130 Ma | GONDWANA RIFT AND INDIAN-PLATE SEPARATION
ENTITY: Indian plate
ENTITY_TYPE: TECTONIC_SYSTEM
EVENT: Rifting separates the Indian plate from Gondwanan neighbours and initiates rapid northward plate motion.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W003
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: TECTONIC_SYSTEM::GONDWANA_RIFT_AND_INDIAN_PLATE_SEPARATION
HOST: Indian plate; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S008,INSA.S009
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G001,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000005 | c. 66 Ma | DECCAN VOLCANISM AND K-PG TRANSITION
ENTITY: Deccan volcanic province and atmosphere-biosphere systems
ENTITY_TYPE: GEOLOGICAL_EVENT
EVENT: Large igneous eruptions contribute to a transformed planetary and regional substrate near the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W003,W004
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GEOLOGICAL_EVENT::DECCAN_VOLCANISM_AND_K_PG_TRANSITION
HOST: Deccan volcanic province and atmosphere-biosphere systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S008
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000006 | c. 60–50 Ma | INDIA-EURASIA COLLISION
ENTITY: Indian and Eurasian plates
ENTITY_TYPE: TECTONIC_SYSTEM
EVENT: Continental collision begins a long orogenic process rather than a single completed impact.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W004
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: TECTONIC_SYSTEM::INDIA_EURASIA_COLLISION
HOST: Indian and Eurasian plates; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S009,INSA.S010
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G001,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000007 | c. 50 Ma–present | HIMALAYA-KARAKORAM-HINDU KUSH OROGENY
ENTITY: Himalayan, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain systems
ENTITY_TYPE: MOUNTAIN_SYSTEM
EVENT: Uplift, exhumation, erosion, glaciation and seismicity create active topography, sediments and water towers whose effects continue at the cutoff.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W004,W005,W006,W007,W008,W009,W010,W011,W012,W013,W014,W015,W016,W017,W018,W019,W020,W021,W022,W023,W024,W025,W026,W027,W028,W029,W030,W031,W032,W033,W034,W035,W036,W037,W038,W039,W040,W041,W042,W043,W044,W045,W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053,W054,W055,W056,W057,W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MOUNTAIN_SYSTEM::HIMALAYA_KARAKORAM_HINDU_KUSH_OROGENY
HOST: Himalayan, Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountain systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S009,INSA.S010,INSA.S012,INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G002,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000008 | c. 23 Ma–present | INDUS FORELAND AND FAN FORMATION
ENTITY: Indus basin, delta and submarine fan
ENTITY_TYPE: RIVER_BASIN
EVENT: Mountain erosion, river transport, avulsion and marine deposition build the alluvial and deltaic host of later settlements.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W004,W005,W006,W007,W008,W009,W010,W011,W012,W013,W014,W015,W016,W017,W018,W019,W020,W021,W022,W023,W024,W025,W026,W027,W028,W029,W030,W031,W032,W033,W034,W035,W036,W037,W038,W039,W040,W041,W042,W043,W044,W045,W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053,W054,W055,W056,W057,W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: RIVER_BASIN::INDUS_FORELAND_AND_FAN_FORMATION
HOST: Indus basin, delta and submarine fan; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S010,INSA.S011
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000009 | Miocene–Pliocene | SIWALIK SEDIMENTARY ARCHIVE
ENTITY: Siwalik foreland sediments
ENTITY_TYPE: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION
EVENT: Fluvial and terrestrial deposits preserve fauna, palaeoenvironments and disputed evidence relevant to early hominin presence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W004,W005
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GEOLOGICAL_FORMATION::SIWALIK_SEDIMENTARY_ARCHIVE
HOST: Siwalik foreland sediments; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL+PALEONTOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL+PALEONTOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S013,INSA.S014,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G032
CA.INSA.000010 | late Miocene–present | SOUTH-ASIAN MONSOON EVOLUTION
ENTITY: Indian summer monsoon, winter westerlies and regional hydrology
ENTITY_TYPE: SKY_CLIMATE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Orbital, oceanic, atmospheric and topographic processes create seasonal water and crop possibilities; the sky is an active substrate, not scenery.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W004,W005,W006,W007,W008,W009,W010,W011,W012,W013,W014,W015,W016,W017,W018,W019,W020,W021,W022,W023,W024,W025,W026,W027,W028,W029,W030,W031,W032,W033,W034,W035,W036,W037,W038,W039,W040,W041,W042,W043,W044,W045,W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053,W054,W055,W056,W057,W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME0_PLANETARY
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: SKY_CLIMATE_SYSTEM::SOUTH_ASIAN_MONSOON_EVOLUTION
HOST: Indian summer monsoon, winter westerlies and regional hydrology; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S012,INSA.S066,INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000011 | Pliocene–Pleistocene | INDUS-THAR-WESTERN HIMALAYA ECOLOGICAL MOSAIC
ENTITY: River plains, piedmonts, desert margins, coasts and highlands
ENTITY_TYPE: ECOREGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Humid and arid oscillations repeatedly widen and close habitats and movement corridors without mechanically determining human action.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W005,W006,W007,W008,W009,W010,W011,W012,W013,W014
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: ECOREGIONAL_SYSTEM::INDUS_THAR_WESTERN_HIMALAYA_ECOLOGICAL_MOSAIC
HOST: River plains, piedmonts, desert margins, coasts and highlands; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S012,INSA.S018,INSA.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000012 | c. 2.8–2.6 Ma | MASOL MODIFICATION CLAIM
ENTITY: Masol/Quranwala fossil and lithic contexts
ENTITY_TYPE: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_CLAIM
EVENT: Reported cut marks and lithics have been interpreted as very early hominin activity, but context and taphonomic agency remain disputed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W006
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_CLAIM::MASOL_MODIFICATION_CLAIM
HOST: Masol/Quranwala fossil and lithic contexts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEONTOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_REVIEW
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: PALEONTOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CONTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Cut marks and association are not secure enough to establish hominin presence
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S017,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000013 | c. 2.2–1.9 Ma | RIWAT EARLY TOOL CLAIM
ENTITY: Riwat conglomerate assemblage
ENTITY_TYPE: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE
EVENT: Flaked quartzite in dated conglomerate has been proposed as approximately two-million-year-old toolmaking; artefact status and context remain debated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W007
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE::RIWAT_EARLY_TOOL_CLAIM
HOST: Riwat conglomerate assemblage; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_REVIEW
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CONTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Small assemblage and difficult natural-versus-human fracture test
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S013,INSA.S014,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G019
CA.INSA.000014 | c. 2–1 Ma | PABBI HILLS SURFACE LITHICS
ENTITY: Pabbi Hills sediments and eroding surfaces
ENTITY_TYPE: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE
EVENT: Fossil-bearing strata and surface lithics indicate a research corridor, but erosion prevents automatic dating of tools by the age of nearby sediment.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W007,W008
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE::PABBI_HILLS_SURFACE_LITHICS
HOST: Pabbi Hills sediments and eroding surfaces; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S014,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G100
CA.INSA.000015 | Early Pleistocene | NORTHWEST DISPERSAL POSSIBILITY
ENTITY: Siwalik and Iranian-Afghan-northwest South Asian corridors
ENTITY_TYPE: MIGRATION_FIELD
EVENT: Early Homo could move through suitable western and northern corridors, but a plausible route is not evidence that a particular population used it.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W007,W008
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MIGRATION_FIELD::NORTHWEST_DISPERSAL_POSSIBILITY
HOST: Siwalik and Iranian-Afghan-northwest South Asian corridors; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOECOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOECOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: INFERRED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S014,INSA.S015,INSA.S021
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G048
CA.INSA.000016 | c. 1.5 Ma | ACHEULEAN THRESHOLD IN SOUTH ASIA
ENTITY: Acheulean toolmaking communities at Attirampakkam and wider South Asia
ENTITY_TYPE: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION
EVENT: Secure Early Pleistocene Acheulean evidence outside this regional core constrains the wider South Asian capability horizon without dating every northwest surface handaxe.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W008
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION::ACHEULEAN_THRESHOLD_IN_SOUTH_ASIA
HOST: Acheulean toolmaking communities at Attirampakkam and wider South Asia; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S015,INSA.S016
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G048
CA.INSA.000017 | Lower Palaeolithic | SOAN AND ACHEULEAN ASSEMBLAGE PLURALITY
ENTITY: Northwest lithic assemblages
ENTITY_TYPE: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION
EVENT: Chopper, flake and handaxe assemblages occur across varied contexts; typological labels are not peoples, species or one chronological culture.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: INFERRED
WORLD_BANDS: W008,W009
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION::SOAN_AND_ACHEULEAN_ASSEMBLAGE_PLURALITY
HOST: Northwest lithic assemblages; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S015,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000018 | 800–300 ka | RIVER-TERRACE TOOL LANDSCAPES
ENTITY: Soan, Jhelum, Indus tributary and piedmont terraces
ENTITY_TYPE: LAND_USE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Repeated occupation, raw-material selection and redeposition create a palimpsest that requires site-specific dating.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W009
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: LAND_USE_SYSTEM::RIVER_TERRACE_TOOL_LANDSCAPES
HOST: Soan, Jhelum, Indus tributary and piedmont terraces; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S015,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000019 | 300–130 ka | MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC TRANSFORMATIONS
ENTITY: Northwest South Asian lithic communities
ENTITY_TYPE: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION
EVENT: Prepared-core, flake and other strategies diversify; technological similarity alone does not identify a species, language or migration.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W010
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TECHNOLOGICAL_TRADITION::MIDDLE_PALAEOLITHIC_TRANSFORMATIONS
HOST: Northwest South Asian lithic communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S015,INSA.S018
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G093
CA.INSA.000020 | 130–70 ka | HUMID-ARID DISPERSAL WINDOWS
ENTITY: Arabia-Iran-Baluchistan-Indus-Thar corridor field
ENTITY_TYPE: MIGRATION_FIELD
EVENT: Alternating water availability changes the cost of dispersal and survival; reachable terrain is not proof of interaction.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W011
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MIGRATION_FIELD::HUMID_ARID_DISPERSAL_WINDOWS
HOST: Arabia-Iran-Baluchistan-Indus-Thar corridor field; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: INFERRED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S012,INSA.S020,INSA.S021
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000021 | c. 74 ka | TOBA ASH AND SOUTH-ASIAN CONTINUITY TEST
ENTITY: Toba tephra and Middle Palaeolithic sites
ENTITY_TYPE: GEOLOGICAL_EVENT
EVENT: The eruption supplies a chronological marker; persistence of lithic traditions at some sites does not by itself prove uninterrupted demographic continuity everywhere.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W011
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GEOLOGICAL_EVENT::TOBA_ASH_AND_SOUTH_ASIAN_CONTINUITY_TEST
HOST: Toba tephra and Middle Palaeolithic sites; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S020
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G027
CA.INSA.000022 | c. 70–50 ka | HOMO SAPIENS DISPERSAL INTO SOUTH ASIA
ENTITY: Early Homo sapiens populations
ENTITY_TYPE: MIGRATION
EVENT: Genetic and archaeological models support major dispersals into South Asia, while route, pulse count and local population replacement remain incompletely observed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W012
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MIGRATION::HOMO_SAPIENS_DISPERSAL_INTO_SOUTH_ASIA
HOST: Early Homo sapiens populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: INFERRED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S020,INSA.S021,INSA.S063
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G099
CA.INSA.000023 | c. 70–45 ka | PERSIAN-PLATEAU HUB INTERFACE
ENTITY: Homo sapiens populations between Iranian Plateau and South Asia
ENTITY_TYPE: POPULATION_NETWORK
EVENT: A 2024 genomic-palaeoecological model identifies the Persian Plateau as a likely population hub; northwest South Asia is a connected hypothesis surface, not automatically the hub itself.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W012,W013
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POPULATION_NETWORK::PERSIAN_PLATEAU_HUB_INTERFACE
HOST: Homo sapiens populations between Iranian Plateau and South Asia; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: MODELLED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S021
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G048,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000024 | c. 45 ka | RIWAT SITE 55
ENTITY: Riwat open-air occupation
ENTITY_TYPE: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE
EVENT: A dated open-air context with lithics and a stone feature provides a firmer late-Pleistocene occupation anchor than the much older Riwat claim.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W013
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: PALEOARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE::RIWAT_SITE_55
HOST: Riwat open-air occupation; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S019
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G019
CA.INSA.000025 | 50–20 ka | LATE-PLEISTOCENE FORAGER NETWORKS
ENTITY: Mobile hunter-gatherer communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_POPULATION
EVENT: Toolmaking, hunting, gathering and landscape knowledge continue across plains, piedmonts and highlands; low site visibility is not absence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W013
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z6_COMMUNITY
FUNCTION: HUMAN_POPULATION::LATE_PLEISTOCENE_FORAGER_NETWORKS
HOST: Mobile hunter-gatherer communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S015,INSA.S022
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G018,INSA.G090

CA.INSA.000026 | 26–19 ka | LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM RECEIPT
ENTITY: Glaciers, Indus headwaters, desert and coastal systems
ENTITY_TYPE: CLIMATE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Cooler, drier and lower-sea-level conditions reshape headwaters, coastlines and habitats without yielding one uniform regional human response.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W014
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: CLIMATE_SYSTEM::LAST_GLACIAL_MAXIMUM_RECEIPT
HOST: Glaciers, Indus headwaters, desert and coastal systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S012,INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G043,INSA.G089
CA.INSA.000027 | 20–11.7 ka | TERMINAL-PLEISTOCENE LAND-USE MOSAIC
ENTITY: Forager and fisher communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_POPULATION
EVENT: Communities use river, wetland, coast, piedmont and upland resources as climate and sea level change.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W014
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME1_DEEP_HUMAN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z6_COMMUNITY
FUNCTION: HUMAN_POPULATION::TERMINAL_PLEISTOCENE_LAND_USE_MOSAIC
HOST: Forager and fisher communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S022,INSA.S029
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G017,INSA.G018
CA.INSA.000028 | early Holocene | MONSOON STRENGTHENING AND HABITAT EXPANSION
ENTITY: Indus, Kachchh, Baluchistan and piedmont ecologies
ENTITY_TYPE: CLIMATE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Stronger monsoon phases and rising sea level alter freshwater, grassland, mangrove and coastal-food possibilities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W015
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: CLIMATE_SYSTEM::MONSOON_STRENGTHENING_AND_HABITAT_EXPANSION
HOST: Indus, Kachchh, Baluchistan and piedmont ecologies; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S012,INSA.S022,INSA.S029
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000029 | early to mid-Holocene | KACHCHH SHELL-MIDDEN LAND USE
ENTITY: Coastal hunter-gatherer communities in Kachchh
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_POPULATION
EVENT: Shell and landscape evidence reported in 2025 documents pre-Harappan coastal food systems in a mangrove-dominated setting; exact site chronologies remain study-specific.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W015,W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z6_COMMUNITY
FUNCTION: HUMAN_POPULATION::KACHCHH_SHELL_MIDDEN_LAND_USE
HOST: Coastal hunter-gatherer communities in Kachchh; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S029
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G012
CA.INSA.000030 | Holocene | RIVER, DESERT AND COAST AS LIVING HOSTS
ENTITY: Indus River, tributaries, Hakra channels, wetlands, delta, Makran and Kachchh coasts
ENTITY_TYPE: LIVING_ECOLOGICAL_OBJECT
EVENT: Water, sediment, fish, pasture, soils and mangroves carry capability and absorb extraction; none is an empty stage for human chronology.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: ESTIMATED
WORLD_BANDS: W015,W016,W017,W018,W019,W020,W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: LIVING_ECOLOGICAL_OBJECT::RIVER_DESERT_AND_COAST_AS_LIVING_HOSTS
HOST: Indus River, tributaries, Hakra channels, wetlands, delta, Makran and Kachchh coasts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S022,INSA.S042,INSA.S043,INSA.S065
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000031 | 9700–8000 BCE | MOBILE KNOWLEDGE BEFORE VILLAGE FARMING
ENTITY: Forager, fisher and plant-management communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_POPULATION
EVENT: Seasonal movement, ecological memory, stone technology and social reproduction form Foundation-0 capability before durable village surplus.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W015
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z6_COMMUNITY
FUNCTION: HUMAN_POPULATION::MOBILE_KNOWLEDGE_BEFORE_VILLAGE_FARMING
HOST: Forager, fisher and plant-management communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S022,INSA.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G017,INSA.G018
CA.INSA.000032 | c. 7000–6500 BCE | MEHRGARH ACERAMIC SETTLEMENT BEGINS
ENTITY: Mehrgarh Period I communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: A durable mud-brick settlement forms on the Kachi Plain near the Bolan corridor; beginning dates remain approximate and phase-based.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::MEHRGARH_ACERAMIC_SETTLEMENT_BEGINS
HOST: Mehrgarh Period I communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000033 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | MUD-BRICK ARCHITECTURE AT MEHRGARH
ENTITY: Mehrgarh households and builders
ENTITY_TYPE: INFRASTRUCTURE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Repeated construction and repair convert local earth, water, fibre and labour into houses and storage spaces.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: INFRASTRUCTURE_SYSTEM::MUD_BRICK_ARCHITECTURE_AT_MEHRGARH
HOST: Mehrgarh households and builders; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000034 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | WHEAT AND BARLEY CULTIVATION
ENTITY: Mehrgarh farming households
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Southwest-Asian domesticates are cultivated within a locally adapted cropping system; seed movement does not establish mass population replacement.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::WHEAT_AND_BARLEY_CULTIVATION
HOST: Mehrgarh farming households; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S026
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000035 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | SHEEP AND GOAT MANAGEMENT
ENTITY: Mehrgarh herding communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Managed caprines join hunting and gathering in a mixed food economy linked westward and locally reproduced.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM::SHEEP_AND_GOAT_MANAGEMENT
HOST: Mehrgarh herding communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S026
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000036 | c. 7000–5000 BCE | ZEBU-CATTLE DOMESTICATION TRAJECTORY
ENTITY: South Asian cattle and Mehrgarh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Local cattle management and selective breeding develop within a plural domestic-animal system; exact domestication geography remains debated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM::ZEBU_CATTLE_DOMESTICATION_TRAJECTORY
HOST: South Asian cattle and Mehrgarh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S026
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000037 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | STORAGE AND SURPLUS AT MEHRGARH
ENTITY: Mehrgarh households and communal facilities
ENTITY_TYPE: STORAGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Compartmented structures and food production support deferred consumption, risk buffering and new maintenance obligations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STORAGE_SYSTEM::STORAGE_AND_SURPLUS_AT_MEHRGARH
HOST: Mehrgarh households and communal facilities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S027
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000038 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | MEHRGARH BURIAL WORLDS
ENTITY: Mehrgarh deceased, mourners and burial custodians
ENTITY_TYPE: MEMORY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Burials with bodies and selected goods preserve social and health evidence but do not transparently reveal complete belief or rank systems.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MEMORY_SYSTEM::MEHRGARH_BURIAL_WORLDS
HOST: Mehrgarh deceased, mourners and burial custodians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000039 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | ORNAMENT AND BEAD PRODUCTION
ENTITY: Mehrgarh craft practitioners
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Stone, shell and other materials are transformed through skilled drilling and finishing, demonstrating embodied learning and exchange.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SYSTEM::ORNAMENT_AND_BEAD_PRODUCTION
HOST: Mehrgarh craft practitioners; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000040 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | EARLY DENTAL DRILLING
ENTITY: Nine adults and specialist or household drill users at Mehrgarh
ENTITY_TYPE: HEALTH_PRACTICE
EVENT: Eleven drilled molars document a long-lived intervention using flint drills; therapeutic, palliative and other motives remain unresolved.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HEALTH_PRACTICE::EARLY_DENTAL_DRILLING
HOST: Nine adults and specialist or household drill users at Mehrgarh; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000041 | c. 7000–5500 BCE | FARMING HEALTH RECEIPTS
ENTITY: Mehrgarh bodies, diets and pathogens
ENTITY_TYPE: HEALTH_SYSTEM
EVENT: Sedentism, cereals, crowding and animal proximity alter dental and disease burdens while settlement also widens food and care capacity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HEALTH_SYSTEM::FARMING_HEALTH_RECEIPTS
HOST: Mehrgarh bodies, diets and pathogens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S025
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000042 | c. 7000–5000 BCE | BOLAN PASS TRANSMISSION CORRIDOR
ENTITY: Kachi Plain, Baluchistan highlands, Iranian Plateau and Indus plains
ENTITY_TYPE: CONNECTOR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Crops, animals, shells, stones, techniques and people move through a corridor with selective adoption; similarity is not proof of one migration.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CONNECTOR_SYSTEM::BOLAN_PASS_TRANSMISSION_CORRIDOR
HOST: Kachi Plain, Baluchistan highlands, Iranian Plateau and Indus plains; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S026
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G021,INSA.G048
CA.INSA.000043 | c. 6000–5000 BCE | CERAMIC NEOLITHIC TRANSITION
ENTITY: Mehrgarh Period II communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MATERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Pottery expands storage, cooking and signalling possibilities while aceramic practices do not disappear everywhere at once.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MATERIAL_SYSTEM::CERAMIC_NEOLITHIC_TRANSITION
HOST: Mehrgarh Period II communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000044 | c. 6000–5000 BCE | EARLY COTTON USE
ENTITY: Mehrgarh fibre workers and cotton
ENTITY_TYPE: TEXTILE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Fibre traces support early cotton use, but production scale, cultivation status and textile organisation remain unevenly observed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TEXTILE_SYSTEM::EARLY_COTTON_USE
HOST: Mehrgarh fibre workers and cotton; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S026
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020
CA.INSA.000045 | c. 5500–4800 BCE | MEHRGARH PERIOD II CRAFT INTENSIFICATION
ENTITY: Mehrgarh craft and farming communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Pottery, figurines, ornaments, architecture and specialised production diversify within a growing village world.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017,W018
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::MEHRGARH_PERIOD_II_CRAFT_INTENSIFICATION
HOST: Mehrgarh craft and farming communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G020,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000046 | c. 4800–3500 BCE | MEHRGARH PERIOD III CHALCOLITHIC SYSTEM
ENTITY: Mehrgarh and connected settlements
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Copper, ceramics, agriculture, herding and exchange intensify while regional traditions remain plural.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W018,W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: REGIONAL_SYSTEM::MEHRGARH_PERIOD_III_CHALCOLITHIC_SYSTEM
HOST: Mehrgarh and connected settlements; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S023,INSA.S024,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G079,INSA.G082
CA.INSA.000047 | sixth–fifth millennia BCE | KILI GUL MUHAMMAD AND QUETTA VALLEY VILLAGES
ENTITY: Quetta Valley village communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Farming, herding and ceramic sequences develop in a highland-lowland interaction field distinct from but connected to Mehrgarh.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017,W018
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::KILI_GUL_MUHAMMAD_AND_QUETTA_VALLEY_VILLAGES
HOST: Quetta Valley village communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G022
CA.INSA.000048 | sixth–fourth millennia BCE | BANNU AND GOMAL VILLAGE SYSTEMS
ENTITY: Sheri Khan Tarakai and related communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Local village economies combine crops, animals, craft and exchange along northwest frontier corridors.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W017,W018,W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::BANNU_AND_GOMAL_VILLAGE_SYSTEMS
HOST: Sheri Khan Tarakai and related communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S028
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000049 | fifth–fourth millennia BCE | BALAKOT COASTAL VILLAGE
ENTITY: Balakot communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Fishing, shell working, farming and coastal exchange create a Makran-Arabian Sea interface before Mature Harappan urban integration.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W018,W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::BALAKOT_COASTAL_VILLAGE
HOST: Balakot communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S030,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G023
CA.INSA.000050 | fifth–fourth millennia BCE | AMRI REGIONAL TRADITION
ENTITY: Amri and lower-Indus communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Distinctive settlement and ceramics form a lower-Indus trajectory that later interacts with Harappan integration without becoming an ethnicity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W018,W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::AMRI_REGIONAL_TRADITION
HOST: Amri and lower-Indus communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G091,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000051 | fifth–fourth millennia BCE | NAL MATERIAL WORLD
ENTITY: Nal and Baluchistan communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Polychrome ceramics and local settlement networks demonstrate regional craft histories that cannot be reduced to a Harappan prelude.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W018,W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::NAL_MATERIAL_WORLD
HOST: Nal and Baluchistan communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G037
CA.INSA.000052 | fourth millennium BCE | KULLI MATERIAL WORLD
ENTITY: Southern Baluchistan communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Settlements, agriculture, pastoralism and distinctive material forms participate in wider exchange while retaining separate local clocks.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::KULLI_MATERIAL_WORLD
HOST: Southern Baluchistan communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G026
CA.INSA.000053 | fourth millennium BCE | MAKRAN COAST AND INLAND CORRIDORS
ENTITY: Fishing, farming, pastoral and exchange communities
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Coastal and valley routes connect Baluchistan, Oman, Iran and the Indus basin through boats, pack animals and seasonal movement.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: REGIONAL_SYSTEM::MAKRAN_COAST_AND_INLAND_CORRIDORS
HOST: Fishing, farming, pastoral and exchange communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S030,INSA.S059,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G017
CA.INSA.000054 | fourth millennium BCE | PASTORAL MOBILITY AS CO-PRODUCTION
ENTITY: Herding communities, animals, pasture and farmers
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Seasonal mobility links ecological zones and transfers animals, knowledge and risk; it is not a residual outside settled civilisation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM::PASTORAL_MOBILITY_AS_CO_PRODUCTION
HOST: Herding communities, animals, pasture and farmers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: FOUNDATION_0
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S026,INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G012
CA.INSA.000055 | c. 4000–3300 BCE | REHMAN DHERI FORMS
ENTITY: Rehman Dheri settlement and hinterland
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: A planned and fortified settlement grows in the Gomal region, showing coordination before Mature Harappan cities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::REHMAN_DHERI_FORMS
HOST: Rehman Dheri settlement and hinterland; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G027
CA.INSA.000056 | c. 3700–2800 BCE | HARAPPA RAVI PHASE
ENTITY: Early Harappa households and craft communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Occupation, craft and incipient sign practices precede the mature city; later urban features are not projected backward.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::HARAPPA_RAVI_PHASE
HOST: Early Harappa households and craft communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S033,INSA.S035,INSA.S041
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G028,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000057 | c. 3800–2600 BCE | HAKRA WARE AND CHOLISTAN SETTLEMENT FIELD
ENTITY: Hakra-associated communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Numerous settlements and ceramics occupy river and desert-margin landscapes; the horizon is not one polity or language.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::HAKRA_WARE_AND_CHOLISTAN_SETTLEMENT_FIELD
HOST: Hakra-associated communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G004,INSA.G013
CA.INSA.000058 | c. 4000–3000 BCE | BHIRRANA EARLY-SEQUENCE CLAIMS
ENTITY: Bhirrana archaeological site
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE
EVENT: Deep occupational and radiometric claims extend local settlement chronology, but very early dates and phase correlations require method-specific review.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SITE::BHIRRANA_EARLY_SEQUENCE_CLAIMS
HOST: Bhirrana archaeological site; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_REVIEW
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: CONTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G025
CA.INSA.000059 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | KOT DIJI HORIZON
ENTITY: Kot Diji and related communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Fortification, ceramics, settlement expansion and craft participate in an Early Harappan integration field without proving one central state.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::KOT_DIJI_HORIZON
HOST: Kot Diji and related communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000060 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | EARLY HARAPPAN KALIBANGAN
ENTITY: Kalibangan settlement and hinterland
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Fortification, streets, craft and agricultural evidence form a regional path into later urban participation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::EARLY_HARAPPAN_KALIBANGAN
HOST: Kalibangan settlement and hinterland; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S036
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000061 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | EARLY HARAPPAN BANAWALI
ENTITY: Banawali settlement
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: A fortified settlement records changing town form across Early and Mature Harappan phases.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::EARLY_HARAPPAN_BANAWALI
HOST: Banawali settlement; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000062 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | EARLY RAKHIGARHI
ENTITY: Rakhigarhi settlement clusters
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Multiple mounds and expanding occupation precede Mature Harappan urban consolidation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::EARLY_RAKHIGARHI
HOST: Rakhigarhi settlement clusters; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S039,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G031,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000063 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | FARMANA AND HARYANA VILLAGE NETWORKS
ENTITY: Farmana and neighbouring settlements
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Villages, cemeteries, craft and crops reveal households and rural systems beneath the largest-city narrative.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::FARMANA_AND_HARYANA_VILLAGE_NETWORKS
HOST: Farmana and neighbouring settlements; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S039,INSA.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000064 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | KUNAL AND REGIONAL PRECURSORS
ENTITY: Kunal settlement communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Metals, ornaments, seals or seal-like objects and craft link local elites and exchange, but do not establish a mature Harappan state.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::KUNAL_AND_REGIONAL_PRECURSORS
HOST: Kunal settlement communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000065 | c. 3500–2600 BCE | GUMLA AND SARAI KHOLA TRANSITIONS
ENTITY: Gomal and Potwar settlements
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Local sequences connect highland, river and plain systems while retaining independent chronologies.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::GUMLA_AND_SARAI_KHOLA_TRANSITIONS
HOST: Gomal and Potwar settlements; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003
CA.INSA.000066 | fourth–third millennia BCE | MUNDIGAK INTERFACE
ENTITY: Mundigak and Kandahar-region communities
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Urbanising and craft connections link Afghanistan, Baluchistan and the Indus world; shared objects do not prove Harappan political control.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM::MUNDIGAK_INTERFACE
HOST: Mundigak and Kandahar-region communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G026
CA.INSA.000067 | fourth–third millennia BCE | SHAHR-I SOKHTA AND HELMAND INTERFACE
ENTITY: Helmand and Indus-connected exchange communities
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Materials and techniques circulate between Iranian, Helmand and Indus networks through multi-step carriers.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM::SHAHR_I_SOKHTA_AND_HELMAND_INTERFACE
HOST: Helmand and Indus-connected exchange communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S051,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000068 | fourth–third millennia BCE | LAPIS AND HIGHLAND MATERIAL CORRIDORS
ENTITY: Badakhshan sources, traders, craftspeople and Indus settlements
ENTITY_TYPE: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM
EVENT: Lapis and other stones move through extraction, sorting, transport, working and exchange chains with multiple hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM::LAPIS_AND_HIGHLAND_MATERIAL_CORRIDORS
HOST: Badakhshan sources, traders, craftspeople and Indus settlements; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S051,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000069 | fourth–third millennia BCE | COPPER SUPPLY NETWORKS
ENTITY: Aravalli-Khetri, Baluchistan, Oman and Indus metalworkers
ENTITY_TYPE: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM
EVENT: Copper reaches settlements through several source and recycling paths; alloy recipes and supply are not one centrally controlled chain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM::COPPER_SUPPLY_NETWORKS
HOST: Aravalli-Khetri, Baluchistan, Oman and Indus metalworkers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S050,INSA.S051,INSA.S059
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000070 | fourth–third millennia BCE | CARNELIAN-AGATE CORRIDOR
ENTITY: Gujarat sources and Indus lapidaries
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Quarrying, heat treatment, drilling and polishing turn regional stone into portable value and technical memory.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SYSTEM::CARNELIAN_AGATE_CORRIDOR
HOST: Gujarat sources and Indus lapidaries; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S033,INSA.S050,INSA.S051
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000071 | fourth–third millennia BCE | MARINE-SHELL CORRIDOR
ENTITY: Makran, Kachchh and Gujarat coasts and inland workshops
ENTITY_TYPE: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM
EVENT: Shell moves from living marine systems through collection, transport and craft to settlements; extraction receipts belong in the chain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MATERIAL_FLOW_SYSTEM::MARINE_SHELL_CORRIDOR
HOST: Makran, Kachchh and Gujarat coasts and inland workshops; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked

CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S030,INSA.S033,INSA.S051
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000072 | c. 3300–2600 BCE | EARLY STANDARDISATION
ENTITY: Early Harappan settlements and workshops
ENTITY_TYPE: STANDARD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Pottery forms, brick practices, weights, seals and signs converge unevenly through interaction and institutional adoption.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STANDARD_SYSTEM::EARLY_STANDARDISATION
HOST: Early Harappan settlements and workshops; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G068,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000073 | c. 3300–2600 BCE | SEAL AND MARK PRECURSORS
ENTITY: Potters, merchants, households and seal users
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Marks and seal practices become more patterned; object context is evidence of use, not a deciphered language.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::SEAL_AND_MARK_PRECURSORS
HOST: Potters, merchants, households and seal users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S034,INSA.S052,INSA.S053,INSA.S054
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G085
CA.INSA.000074 | c. 3300–2600 BCE | CROP PLURALITY BEFORE URBAN INTEGRATION
ENTITY: Farming households across Indus ecologies
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Winter cereals, pulses, oilseeds and increasingly summer crops support several regional calendars rather than one Indus agrarian package.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::CROP_PLURALITY_BEFORE_URBAN_INTEGRATION
HOST: Farming households across Indus ecologies; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000075 | c. 3000 BCE | KALIBANGAN FURROWED FIELD
ENTITY: Kalibangan cultivators and field surface
ENTITY_TYPE: AGRICULTURAL_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Cross-furrow traces are widely interpreted as organised cultivation; crop assignment and exact operational sequence remain inferential.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: AGRICULTURAL_INFRASTRUCTURE::KALIBANGAN_FURROWED_FIELD
HOST: Kalibangan cultivators and field surface; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S036,INSA.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G033
CA.INSA.000076 | c. 3000–2600 BCE | URBAN CONVERGENCE WITHOUT SINGLE ORIGIN
ENTITY: Early Harappan regional systems
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Several local trajectories converge on shared protocols, while city forms and rural ecologies retain difference; no one site is assigned sole invention.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: REGIONAL_SYSTEM::URBAN_CONVERGENCE_WITHOUT_SINGLE_ORIGIN
HOST: Early Harappan regional systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CONVERGENCE_RUNTIME
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G041,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000077 | c. 2600 BCE | MATURE HARAPPAN INTEGRATION THRESHOLD
ENTITY: Indus or Harappan interaction sphere
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Shared measures, seals, signs, craft conventions and settlement practices reach high interregional coherence through convergence; the threshold is phase-based, not an empire’s foundation date.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM::MATURE_HARAPPAN_INTEGRATION_THRESHOLD
HOST: Indus or Harappan interaction sphere; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000078 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | MATURE HARAPPAN CIVILISATION
ENTITY: Urban, town, village, pastoral and mobile communities across the Indus sphere
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: A large polycentric interaction system links settlements from highland and piedmont corridors to river plains, desert margins and coasts; archaeological coherence does not establish one ethnicity, language or unitary state.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM::MATURE_HARAPPAN_CIVILISATION
HOST: Urban, town, village, pastoral and mobile communities across the Indus sphere; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000079 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | POLITICAL FORM REMAINS UNRESOLVED
ENTITY: Harappan governing and coordinating institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM
EVENT: City planning and standards imply coordination, but no deciphered royal archive, securely identified palace, royal tomb or capital permits a confident reconstruction of sovereignty.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM::POLITICAL_FORM_REMAINS_UNRESOLVED
HOST: Harappan governing and coordinating institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+EPIGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_REVIEW
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+EPIGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: UNKNOWN
UNCERTAINTY: Coordination is observed but its offices scale coercion and territorial geometry are not
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033,INSA.S052
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000080 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | POLYCENTRIC SETTLEMENT HIERARCHY
ENTITY: Harappan cities, towns, villages, camps and hinterlands
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Several large cities coexist with smaller centres and dense rural networks; monumental visibility is not a measure of total population or functional importance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_SYSTEM::POLYCENTRIC_SETTLEMENT_HIERARCHY
HOST: Harappan cities, towns, villages, camps and hinterlands; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000081 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | HARAPPA URBAN SYSTEM
ENTITY: Harappa residents, institutions and hinterland
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Multiple mounds, walls, streets, drains, workshops, cemeteries and changing neighbourhoods form a long-lived city rather than a single construction plan.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::HARAPPA_URBAN_SYSTEM
HOST: Harappa residents, institutions and hinterland; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S033,INSA.S035,INSA.S041
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G079,INSA.G082
CA.INSA.000082 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | MOHENJO-DARO URBAN SYSTEM
ENTITY: Mohenjo-daro residents, institutions and floodplain
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Planned streets, wells, drains, platforms and large buildings support a major lower-Indus city repeatedly built and repaired within a flood-prone landscape.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::MOHENJO_DARO_URBAN_SYSTEM
HOST: Mohenjo-daro residents, institutions and floodplain; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S040,INSA.S137
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000083 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | DHOLAVIRA URBAN SYSTEM
ENTITY: Dholavira residents, institutions and Khadir landscape
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Fortified sectors, reservoirs, channels, stone architecture and a large signboard-like assemblage create a distinctive water-constrained urban solution rather than a standard city copy.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::DHOLAVIRA_URBAN_SYSTEM
HOST: Dholavira residents, institutions and Khadir landscape; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S037,INSA.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G096
CA.INSA.000084 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | RAKHIGARHI URBAN CLUSTER
ENTITY: Rakhigarhi residents, institutions and hinterland
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Multiple mounds, craft areas, streets, drains and cemeteries form one of the largest known Harappan complexes; exposed area and modern boundaries do not fix its ancient population.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::RAKHIGARHI_URBAN_CLUSTER
HOST: Rakhigarhi residents, institutions and hinterland; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S039,INSA.S062
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G031,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000085 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | GANWERIWALA LARGE-SITE SIGNAL
ENTITY: Ganweriwala and Cholistan settlement field
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Surface extent indicates a very large Hakra-zone centre, but limited excavation constrains institutional and chronological comparison with better-known cities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT::GANWERIWALA_LARGE_SITE_SIGNAL
HOST: Ganweriwala and Cholistan settlement field; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G032,INSA.G043
CA.INSA.000086 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | KALIBANGAN MATURE TOWN
ENTITY: Kalibangan residents and Ghaggar landscape
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Fortified sectors, streets, drains, craft and ritual interpretations document an important regional town while specific structure functions remain contestable.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::KALIBANGAN_MATURE_TOWN
HOST: Kalibangan residents and Ghaggar landscape; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S036,INSA.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G004,INSA.G033
CA.INSA.000087 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | BANAWALI MATURE TOWN
ENTITY: Banawali residents and hinterland
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Changing fortification and street arrangements show local urban remodelling within shared Harappan protocols.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::BANAWALI_MATURE_TOWN
HOST: Banawali residents and hinterland; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G034
CA.INSA.000088 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | LOTHAL PORT-CRAFT NODE
ENTITY: Lothal residents, craftspeople and Gulf of Khambhat routes
ENTITY_TYPE: PORT_TOWN
EVENT: Bead production, seals, weights and a large basin connect the town to maritime exchange; the basin’s exact dock, reservoir or mixed function remains debated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PORT_TOWN::LOTHAL_PORT_CRAFT_NODE
HOST: Lothal residents, craftspeople and Gulf of Khambhat routes; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Function of the basin is debated
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S050,INSA.S059
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G035,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000089 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CHANHU-DARO CRAFT TOWN
ENTITY: Chanhu-daro craftspeople and residents
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Bead, shell, seal and other production demonstrates urban specialisation without requiring the town to be politically subordinate to a single capital.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SETTLEMENT::CHANHU_DARO_CRAFT_TOWN
HOST: Chanhu-daro craftspeople and residents; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S033,INSA.S050
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G036,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000090 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SUTKAGEN DOR WESTERN NODE
ENTITY: Sutkagen Dor residents and Makran route users
ENTITY_TYPE: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: A fortified site near the Makran coast anchors overland and maritime access at the western edge of Harappan material distribution; control over all passing trade is unproven.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT::SUTKAGEN_DOR_WESTERN_NODE
HOST: Sutkagen Dor residents and Makran route users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G037
CA.INSA.000091 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | BALAKOT COASTAL CONTINUITY
ENTITY: Balakot fishing, farming and craft communities
ENTITY_TYPE: COASTAL_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Earlier coastal lifeways continue within stronger Harappan material integration, showing host adaptation rather than replacement by an urban package.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: COASTAL_SETTLEMENT::BALAKOT_COASTAL_CONTINUITY
HOST: Balakot fishing, farming and craft communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S030,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G023,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000092 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SHORTUGAI HIGHLAND INTERFACE
ENTITY: Shortugai residents and Badakhshan-Indus networks
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADING_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Harappan material practices appear near lapis and Oxus routes in northeast Afghanistan, but the site’s exact political and demographic relation to Indus cities remains uncertain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: TRADING_SETTLEMENT::SHORTUGAI_HIGHLAND_INTERFACE
HOST: Shortugai residents and Badakhshan-Indus networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S051,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000093 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | MANDA NORTHERN INTERFACE
ENTITY: Manda settlement and Himalayan foothill networks
ENTITY_TYPE: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Harappan materials at a northern node indicate exchange and settlement reach without establishing uniform control of mountain corridors.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT::MANDA_NORTHERN_INTERFACE
HOST: Manda settlement and Himalayan foothill networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000094 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | ALAMGIRPUR EASTERN INTERFACE
ENTITY: Alamgirpur settlement communities
ENTITY_TYPE: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT
EVENT: Harappan materials mark an eastern interface in the upper Ganges-Yamuna zone; small-site evidence cannot define the civilisation’s political border.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: FRONTIER_SETTLEMENT::ALAMGIRPUR_EASTERN_INTERFACE
HOST: Alamgirpur settlement communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S031
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G040
CA.INSA.000095 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | RURAL MAJORITY AND FOOD BASE
ENTITY: Farming villages, pastoral groups, fishers and labouring households
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Urban persistence depends on distributed crop, herd, fish, fuel, fibre and maintenance work mostly preserved outside monumental centres.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::RURAL_MAJORITY_AND_FOOD_BASE
HOST: Farming villages, pastoral groups, fishers and labouring households; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S048,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G017,INSA.G041
CA.INSA.000096 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | WINTER-CROP SYSTEMS
ENTITY: Harappan farming households
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Wheat, barley, pulses and oilseeds remain important within locally variable winter cropping calendars.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::WINTER_CROP_SYSTEMS
HOST: Harappan farming households; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G041,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000097 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SUMMER-CROP EXPANSION
ENTITY: Harappan farming households
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Millets, rice and other summer crops vary across eastern and southern zones, increasing ecological flexibility without one uniform package.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::SUMMER_CROP_EXPANSION
HOST: Harappan farming households; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000098 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | MULTI-CROPPING AND RISK DISTRIBUTION
ENTITY: Indus farmers and seasonal labour systems
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Combining winter and summer crops can spread climate and labour risk, but exact double-cropping at each site requires local evidence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::MULTI_CROPPING_AND_RISK_DISTRIBUTION
HOST: Indus farmers and seasonal labour systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G043,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000099 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CATTLE-CENTRED ANIMAL ECONOMIES
ENTITY: Harappan cattle, herders, farmers and consumers
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Zebu cattle provide meat, traction and stored value alongside buffalo, sheep, goats and wild resources; use intensity varies by site.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HUMAN_ANIMAL_SYSTEM::CATTLE_CENTRED_ANIMAL_ECONOMIES
HOST: Harappan cattle, herders, farmers and consumers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S048
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000100 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | FISH AND AQUATIC FOOD SYSTEMS
ENTITY: Fishers, consumers, rivers, estuaries and coastal waters
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_WATER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Freshwater and marine fish contribute to diets and exchange in site-specific ways; a 2025 synthesis improves species and butchery resolution without making fish uniform across the region.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HUMAN_WATER_SYSTEM::FISH_AND_AQUATIC_FOOD_SYSTEMS
HOST: Fishers, consumers, rivers, estuaries and coastal waters; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S048
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G017,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000101 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | COTTON TEXTILE CAPABILITY
ENTITY: Cotton, spinners, weavers, dyers and traders
ENTITY_TYPE: TEXTILE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Cotton production and textile work create lightweight, portable goods, but fibre survival makes scale and labour organisation hard to reconstruct.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TEXTILE_SYSTEM::COTTON_TEXTILE_CAPABILITY
HOST: Cotton, spinners, weavers, dyers and traders; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S026,INSA.S032,INSA.S050
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003
CA.INSA.000102 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | COPPER-BRONZE METALLURGY
ENTITY: Miners, traders, smiths, recyclers and metal users
ENTITY_TYPE: METALLURGICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Copper and alloys support tools, vessels and ornaments through multi-source supply and recycling; metallurgy does not displace stone, shell or bone.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: METALLURGICAL_SYSTEM::COPPER_BRONZE_METALLURGY
HOST: Miners, traders, smiths, recyclers and metal users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S050,INSA.S051,INSA.S059
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000103 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CARNELIAN BEAD SPECIALISATION
ENTITY: Gujarat sources, Harappan lapidaries and exchange users
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Heat treatment, drilling and polishing embody long training chains whose products travel far beyond their workshops.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SYSTEM::CARNELIAN_BEAD_SPECIALISATION
HOST: Gujarat sources, Harappan lapidaries and exchange users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S033,INSA.S050,INSA.S051
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000104 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SHELL CRAFT AND EXTRACTION RECEIPT
ENTITY: Coastal collectors, shell workers, marine species and inland users
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Marine shells are collected, transported and worked into bangles and objects; value depends on living coastal hosts and often-unseen extraction labour.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SYSTEM::SHELL_CRAFT_AND_EXTRACTION_RECEIPT
HOST: Coastal collectors, shell workers, marine species and inland users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S030,INSA.S033,INSA.S051
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011,INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000105 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | FAIENCE AND PYROTECHNOLOGY
ENTITY: Harappan kiln and faience specialists
ENTITY_TYPE: CRAFT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Controlled heat and material recipes produce ceramics, faience and glazed effects through workshops and apprenticeship rather than a single inventor.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CRAFT_SYSTEM::FAIENCE_AND_PYROTECHNOLOGY
HOST: Harappan kiln and faience specialists; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S033,INSA.S050
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000106 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | STANDARD BRICK RATIOS
ENTITY: Harappan builders and brick-making systems
ENTITY_TYPE: STANDARD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Widely shared proportional conventions improve interoperability while dimensions, materials and adherence vary by place and phase.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STANDARD_SYSTEM::STANDARD_BRICK_RATIOS
HOST: Harappan builders and brick-making systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: PROTOCOL
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G041,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000107 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | BINARY WEIGHT CONVENTIONS
ENTITY: Merchants, administrators, craftspeople and stone weights
ENTITY_TYPE: STANDARD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Cubical weights organised in recurrent series support measurement and exchange; their spread does not identify a central mint or sovereign bureau.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STANDARD_SYSTEM::BINARY_WEIGHT_CONVENTIONS
HOST: Merchants, administrators, craftspeople and stone weights; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+METROLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+METROLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: PROTOCOL
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S033,INSA.S050
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000108 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SEALS AS INFORMATION OBJECTS
ENTITY: Seal carvers, owners, handlers and recipients
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Animal motifs, signs and sealings connect identity, authentication, custody and exchange, while exact office and reading practices remain partly unknown.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::SEALS_AS_INFORMATION_OBJECTS
HOST: Seal carvers, owners, handlers and recipients; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S052,INSA.S053,INSA.S054,INSA.S057
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G053
CA.INSA.000109 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | INDUS SIGN SYSTEM
ENTITY: Inscribed seals, tablets, pottery and other objects
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Hundreds of signs occur in short patterned sequences across multiple media; the system’s linguistic status and readings remain disputed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::INDUS_SIGN_SYSTEM
HOST: Inscribed seals, tablets, pottery and other objects; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+COMPUTATIONAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+COMPUTATIONAL
CLAIM_STATUS: UNDECIPHERED
UNCERTAINTY: No consensus decipherment or securely identified underlying language
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S052,INSA.S053,INSA.S054,INSA.S055,INSA.S056
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G043,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000110 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | NO SECURE INDUS BILINGUAL
ENTITY: Indus inscriptions and comparative corpora
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CONDITION
EVENT: No generally accepted bilingual text anchors sign values, so proposed readings remain hypotheses rather than recovered historical testimony.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_CONDITION::NO_SECURE_INDUS_BILINGUAL
HOST: Indus inscriptions and comparative corpora; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: NOT_ATTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S052,INSA.S053,INSA.S054,INSA.S056
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000111 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | SHORT-TEXT ARCHIVE BIAS
ENTITY: Perishable and durable Harappan information hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHIVE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Surviving inscriptions are mostly brief and durable; lost textiles, wood, speech and gesture may have carried more information, but unknown evidence is not positive proof.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHIVE_SYSTEM::SHORT_TEXT_ARCHIVE_BIAS
HOST: Perishable and durable Harappan information hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+TAPHONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+TAPHONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ARCHIVE_BIAS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S052,INSA.S054,INSA.S056
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000112 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | URBAN WELLS AND WATER ACCESS
ENTITY: Mohenjo-daro and other urban households
ENTITY_TYPE: WATER_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Numerous wells distribute water access through neighbourhoods while ownership, maintenance duty and seasonal reliability remain unevenly visible.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: WATER_INFRASTRUCTURE::URBAN_WELLS_AND_WATER_ACCESS
HOST: Mohenjo-daro and other urban households; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000113 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | DRAINAGE AND WASTE FLOWS
ENTITY: Urban households, drains, streets, cleaners and receiving ecologies
ENTITY_TYPE: SANITATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Covered drains and bathing platforms route water and waste, but operation depends on repeated cleaning and downstream absorption not captured by plans alone.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: SANITATION_SYSTEM::DRAINAGE_AND_WASTE_FLOWS
HOST: Urban households, drains, streets, cleaners and receiving ecologies; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S033,INSA.S040
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G037
CA.INSA.000114 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | DHOLAVIRA WATER CAPTURE
ENTITY: Dholavira residents, channels, reservoirs and seasonal runoff
ENTITY_TYPE: WATER_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Channels and reservoirs store variable runoff and support settlement on an arid island, embedding dependence on geology, labour and maintenance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: WATER_INFRASTRUCTURE::DHOLAVIRA_WATER_CAPTURE
HOST: Dholavira residents, channels, reservoirs and seasonal runoff; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S037,INSA.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G030,INSA.G096
CA.INSA.000115 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | FLOOD PLATFORMS AND REBUILDING
ENTITY: Mohenjo-daro builders, residents and Indus floodplain
ENTITY_TYPE: RESILIENCE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Elevated construction and rebuilding manage flood and sediment risk without eliminating exposure or proving one master plan.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RESILIENCE_SYSTEM::FLOOD_PLATFORMS_AND_REBUILDING
HOST: Mohenjo-daro builders, residents and Indus floodplain; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S040,INSA.S042
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000116 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | GREAT BATH AT MOHENJO-DARO
ENTITY: Bath structure, water handlers and user communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_OBJECT
EVENT: A carefully sealed pool implies organised filling, draining and access; ritual use is plausible but its precise ceremony and authority remain unknown.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_OBJECT::GREAT_BATH_AT_MOHENJO_DARO
HOST: Bath structure, water handlers and user communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S040,INSA.S137
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000117 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | LARGE BUILDING FUNCTION CAUTION
ENTITY: Harappan monumental structures
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_OBJECT
EVENT: Labels such as granary, citadel, college or palace are modern functional hypotheses and must remain separate from observed masonry and spatial form.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_OBJECT::LARGE_BUILDING_FUNCTION_CAUTION
HOST: Harappan monumental structures; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_REVIEW
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S137
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000118 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CART AND OVERLAND TRANSPORT
ENTITY: Draft animals, carts, roads and carriers
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Models, trackways and animal economies support wheeled and pack transport, with reach limited by terrain, fodder, security and transshipment.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM::CART_AND_OVERLAND_TRANSPORT
HOST: Draft animals, carts, roads and carriers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075
CA.INSA.000119 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | RIVER AND MARITIME TRANSPORT
ENTITY: Boats, crews, rivers, estuaries and Arabian Sea routes
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM
EVENT: River craft and coastal voyaging connect settlements and western exchange nodes, but accessible coastlines do not prove direct voyages by every city.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM::RIVER_AND_MARITIME_TRANSPORT
HOST: Boats, crews, rivers, estuaries and Arabian Sea routes; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S057,INSA.S059,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003
CA.INSA.000120 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | MELUHHA IN MESOPOTAMIAN RECORDS
ENTITY: Mesopotamian scribes, merchants and places identified with the Indus sphere
ENTITY_TYPE: EXTERNAL_ATTESTATION
EVENT: Cuneiform references to Meluhha, Meluhhan goods and people provide an external archive commonly linked to the Indus world, though boundaries and name equivalence remain inferential.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EXTERNAL_ATTESTATION::MELUHHA_IN_MESOPOTAMIAN_RECORDS
HOST: Mesopotamian scribes, merchants and places identified with the Indus sphere; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S057,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000121 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | DILMUN RELAY INTERFACE
ENTITY: Indus, Gulf and Dilmun merchants and ports
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Bahrain and Gulf networks relay goods, credit, information and people between South Asia and Mesopotamia rather than acting as an empty bridge.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::DILMUN_RELAY_INTERFACE
HOST: Indus, Gulf and Dilmun merchants and ports; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S057,INSA.S058,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000122 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | MAGAN-OMAN COPPER AND SEAL INTERFACE
ENTITY: Oman communities, metal producers and Indus-linked traders
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Copper, vessels, seals and settlement evidence document reciprocal interaction whose hosts and routes change over time.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::MAGAN_OMAN_COPPER_AND_SEAL_INTERFACE
HOST: Oman communities, metal producers and Indus-linked traders; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S057,INSA.S058,INSA.S059
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G047,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000123 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | MELUHHAN INTERPRETER AT AKKAD
ENTITY: Mesopotamian administration and Meluhhan-language speakers
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSLATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: A cuneiform occupational reference to a Meluhhan interpreter indicates language mediation and resident or visiting foreigners; it does not identify the Indus language.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRANSLATION_SYSTEM::MELUHHAN_INTERPRETER_AT_AKKAD
HOST: Mesopotamian administration and Meluhhan-language speakers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G045
CA.INSA.000124 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | IRANIAN-PLATEAU EXCHANGE
ENTITY: Indus, Helmand and Iranian-plateau communities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Stones, metals, technologies and styles circulate through several nodes; compared objects must not be promoted automatically to direct influence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::IRANIAN_PLATEAU_EXCHANGE
HOST: Indus, Helmand and Iranian-plateau communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S051,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G048,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000125 | c. 2300–1900 BCE | OXUS-BMAC INTERFACE
ENTITY: Indus and Oxus-region traders and craftspeople
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Indus objects and practices reach Central Asian urban networks through travel and relay exchange without establishing territorial rule.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::OXUS_BMAC_INTERFACE
HOST: Indus and Oxus-region traders and craftspeople; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S051,INSA.S060,INSA.S061
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G049,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000126 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | HOUSEHOLD DIFFERENCE AND ACCESS
ENTITY: Harappan households and neighbourhoods
ENTITY_TYPE: SOCIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Variation in house size, wells, craft debris, diet and burial treatment indicates differentiated access, but cannot be translated mechanically into fixed classes or castes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: SOCIAL_SYSTEM::HOUSEHOLD_DIFFERENCE_AND_ACCESS
HOST: Harappan households and neighbourhoods; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S035,INSA.S039,INSA.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000127 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | HEALTH AND INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
ENTITY: Harappan bodies and care networks
ENTITY_TYPE: HEALTH_SYSTEM
EVENT: Skeletal evidence records disease, nutrition, trauma and care unevenly across small burial samples; citywide prevalence and social categories remain uncertain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HEALTH_SYSTEM::HEALTH_AND_INTERPERSONAL_VIOLENCE
HOST: Harappan bodies and care networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S035,INSA.S039,INSA.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000128 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CEMETERY AND MORTUARY PLURALITY
ENTITY: Harappan deceased, mourners and burial custodians
ENTITY_TYPE: MEMORY_SYSTEM

EVENT: Cemeteries preserve selective subsets of the dead and variable treatment, leaving many people and practices archaeologically absent.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MEMORY_SYSTEM::CEMETERY_AND_MORTUARY_PLURALITY
HOST: Harappan deceased, mourners and burial custodians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ARCHIVE_BIAS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S035,INSA.S039
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050,INSA.G051
CA.INSA.000129 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | MAINTENANCE LABOUR UNDER URBAN ORDER
ENTITY: Cleaners, water carriers, builders, fuel gatherers, food processors and carers
ENTITY_TYPE: LABOUR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Urban function rests on repetitive, often anonymous labour whose output survives more readily than names, bargaining power or coercion conditions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: LABOUR_SYSTEM::MAINTENANCE_LABOUR_UNDER_URBAN_ORDER
HOST: Cleaners, water carriers, builders, fuel gatherers, food processors and carers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TAPHONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TAPHONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000130 | 3700–1300 BCE; studied 2025 | HARAPPA TAPHONOMY AND LABOUR STUDY
ENTITY: Harappa animal remains, workers and archaeological researchers
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: A 2025 study reconstructs carcass processing, deposition and labour across phases; publication date is evidence history and does not move ancient activity into 2025.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W019,W020,W021,W022,W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::HARAPPA_TAPHONOMY_AND_LABOUR_STUDY
HOST: Harappa animal remains, workers and archaeological researchers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+TAPHONOMIC+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL+TAPHONOMIC+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G028,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000131 | c. 2600–1900 BCE | CIVILISATIONAL FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION
ENTITY: Harappan protocols and participating hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Interoperable standards, information objects, craft training and transport allow functions to cross local boundaries while their expression remains host-conditioned.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: CIVILISATIONAL_SYSTEM::CIVILISATIONAL_FUNCTIONAL_INTEGRATION
HOST: Harappan protocols and participating hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: INTEGRATION_NON_IDENTITY
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S033
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000132 | c. 2200 BCE | 4.2-KA CLIMATE EVENT RECEIPT
ENTITY: Monsoon, westerlies, rivers and settlement systems
ENTITY_TYPE: CLIMATE_SYSTEM
EVENT: A broad aridity interval overlaps late urban centuries, but timing and severity vary spatially and do not constitute a single collapse switch.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z0_SUBSTRATE
FUNCTION: CLIMATE_SYSTEM::4_2_KA_CLIMATE_EVENT_RECEIPT
HOST: Monsoon, westerlies, rivers and settlement systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S065,INSA.S066
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000133 | c. 2500–1900 BCE | SUTLEJ-HAGGAR PALAEOCHANNEL INHERITANCE
ENTITY: Sutlej, Ghaggar-Hakra channels and settlements
ENTITY_TYPE: RIVER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Geochronology indicates major Sutlej avulsion preceded Mature Harappan urbanism, leaving a large relict valley usable by monsoon-fed flows; a glacier-fed urban river is not required.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RIVER_SYSTEM::SUTLEJ_HAGGAR_PALAEOCHANNEL_INHERITANCE
HOST: Sutlej, Ghaggar-Hakra channels and settlements; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GEOCHRONOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GEOCHRONOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S042,INSA.S043,INSA.S044
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G004,INSA.G005
CA.INSA.000134 | c. 2300–1900 BCE | MONSOON AND RIVER VARIABILITY INTENSIFIES
ENTITY: Indus-basin communities and water systems
ENTITY_TYPE: PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Variable rainfall, flood regime and channel behaviour increase water and coordination costs unevenly across the system.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PRESSURE_FIELD::MONSOON_AND_RIVER_VARIABILITY_INTENSIFIES
HOST: Indus-basin communities and water systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: PRESSURE_NOT_CAUSE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S042,INSA.S043,INSA.S065,INSA.S066
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G043,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000135 | c. 2400–1400 BCE; published 2025 | REPEATED RIVER-DROUGHT MODEL
ENTITY: Indus civilisation settlements and hydroclimate records
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: A 2025 multiproxy study models four persistent drought episodes between about 4400 and 3400 years before present; it supports interacting climate pressure, not monocausal or instantaneous collapse.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::REPEATED_RIVER_DROUGHT_MODEL
HOST: Indus civilisation settlements and hydroclimate records; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOCLIMATE+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+MODELLING; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOCLIMATE+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+MODELLING
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S045
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000136 | c. 2100–1900 BCE | EXCHANGE CONTRACTION AND RECONFIGURATION
ENTITY: Harappan-Gulf-Mesopotamian trade networks
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Long-distance exchange and some specialised production contract or change before and during urban transformation; regional sequences are asynchronous.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::EXCHANGE_CONTRACTION_AND_RECONFIGURATION
HOST: Harappan-Gulf-Mesopotamian trade networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S058,INSA.S060
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000137 | c. 2000–1900 BCE | URBAN MAINTENANCE STRESS
ENTITY: Major Harappan cities and support systems
ENTITY_TYPE: PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Rebuilding, sanitation, water supply, standard enforcement and food provisioning become harder to reproduce in several centres, with no single uniform failure date.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022,W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PRESSURE_FIELD::URBAN_MAINTENANCE_STRESS
HOST: Major Harappan cities and support systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+PALEOENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S032,INSA.S042,INSA.S045,INSA.S065
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G041,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000138 | c. 1900 BCE | MATURE-TO-LATE HARAPPAN TRANSITION
ENTITY: Harappan urban and regional systems
ENTITY_TYPE: CIVILISATIONAL_TRANSFORMATION
EVENT: Large-city occupation, inscriptions and standard packages decline or change while populations, settlements, crops and crafts continue in reconfigured local systems.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: CIVILISATIONAL_TRANSFORMATION::MATURE_TO_LATE_HARAPPAN_TRANSITION
HOST: Harappan urban and regional systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: METAMORPHOSIS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034,INSA.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G041,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000139 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | LATE HARAPPAN PLURALITY
ENTITY: Cemetery H, Jhukar, Rangpur, Bara and related regional communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Several post-urban material traditions overlap and diverge; the labels are regional archaeological constructs, not one successor civilisation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::LATE_HARAPPAN_PLURALITY
HOST: Cemetery H, Jhukar, Rangpur, Bara and related regional communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S067
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000140 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | CEMETERY H TRANSFORMATIONS
ENTITY: Punjab communities and Harappa cemetery users
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: New pottery and mortuary practices coexist with local continuities; neither material change nor cremation alone proves an incoming named people.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::CEMETERY_H_TRANSFORMATIONS
HOST: Punjab communities and Harappa cemetery users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S035,INSA.S067,INSA.S136
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G051,INSA.G080
CA.INSA.000141 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | JHUKAR AND LOWER-INDUS RECONFIGURATION
ENTITY: Lower-Indus communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Settlement, craft and ceramic systems reorganise after urban contraction with selective continuity and new regional connections.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::JHUKAR_AND_LOWER_INDUS_RECONFIGURATION
HOST: Lower-Indus communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000142 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | RANGPUR-SORATH CONTINUITY
ENTITY: Gujarat and Saurashtra communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Harappan-derived practices persist and change in smaller settlements with distinct food and craft trajectories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::RANGPUR_SORATH_CONTINUITY
HOST: Gujarat and Saurashtra communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S046,INSA.S049
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G053
CA.INSA.000143 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | BARA AND EASTERN INTERFACES
ENTITY: Sutlej-Yamuna communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Local ceramic and settlement systems interact with Late Harappan and other north-Indian traditions without a clean cultural border.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::BARA_AND_EASTERN_INTERFACES
HOST: Sutlej-Yamuna communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S027,INSA.S067
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G005
CA.INSA.000144 | c. 2000–1200 BCE | OCHRE-COLOURED POTTERY AND COPPER-HOARD INTERFACE
ENTITY: Upper Ganges-Yamuna and eastern Harappan-border communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Pottery and copper deposits create a partly overlapping eastern archaeological field whose population and language associations remain uncertain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::OCHRE_COLOURED_POTTERY_AND_COPPER_HOARD_INTERFACE
HOST: Upper Ganges-Yamuna and eastern Harappan-border communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000145 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | EASTWARD SETTLEMENT REDISTRIBUTION
ENTITY: Farming and pastoral communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Settlement density shifts toward eastern Punjab, Haryana and upper Ganges-Yamuna zones while western and coastal regions follow different paths.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_SYSTEM::EASTWARD_SETTLEMENT_REDISTRIBUTION
HOST: Farming and pastoral communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SPATIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ASYNCHRONOUS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S042,INSA.S046
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G059
CA.INSA.000146 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | CROP DIVERSIFICATION AFTER URBANISM
ENTITY: Farming households and seed systems
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Locally varied winter and summer cropping supports smaller settlements and risk spreading; adaptation does not imply an uncosted or uniform transition.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_SYSTEM::CROP_DIVERSIFICATION_AFTER_URBANISM
HOST: Farming households and seed systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOBOTANICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOBOTANICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S046,INSA.S049,INSA.S065
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000147 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | STANDARDISATION UNBUNDLES
ENTITY: Weights, seals, bricks, inscriptions and local hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: STANDARD_SYSTEM
EVENT: Several mature protocols lose wide reproduction while some craft, building and measurement practices survive locally or in changed hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STANDARD_SYSTEM::STANDARDISATION_UNBUNDLES
HOST: Weights, seals, bricks, inscriptions and local hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S034
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G085
CA.INSA.000148 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | INDUS INSCRIPTION PRACTICE CONTRACTS
ENTITY: Late Harappan information hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: The mature sign corpus ceases widespread reproduction, leaving no demonstrated continuous readable chain into later scripts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::INDUS_INSCRIPTION_PRACTICE_CONTRACTS
HOST: Late Harappan information hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL5_ORPHANED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ORPHANED_PORTABILITY
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S052,INSA.S053,INSA.S054,INSA.S056
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000149 | c. 1900–1300 BCE | NO SINGLE INVASION DESTRUCTION HORIZON
ENTITY: Harappan and post-Harappan sites
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_CONDITION
EVENT: Archaeology does not support one synchronised military destruction of the entire civilisation; migration and conflict questions require site-specific evidence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_CONDITION::NO_SINGLE_INVASION_DESTRUCTION_HORIZON
HOST: Harappan and post-Harappan sites; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: NOT_ATTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S031,INSA.S032,INSA.S063,INSA.S136
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000150 | c. 2300–2000 BCE | RAKHIGARHI GENOME INDIVIDUAL
ENTITY: One adult from Rakhigarhi cemetery
ENTITY_TYPE: HUMAN_REMAINS
EVENT: Genome-wide data from one Harappan individual show ancestry related to ancient Iranian hunter-gatherers and South Asian hunter-gatherers, without detectable steppe-pastoralist ancestry in that sample.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W022
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z8_INDIVIDUAL
FUNCTION: HUMAN_REMAINS::RAKHIGARHI_GENOME_INDIVIDUAL
HOST: One adult from Rakhigarhi cemetery; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: One low-coverage individual cannot represent all Harappan populations
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S062,INSA.S063
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G051,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000151 | 2019 CE evidence publication | RAKHIGARHI GENOME EVIDENCE HISTORY
ENTITY: Harappan genome research and descendant publics
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: Publication makes the ancient genome newly available to interpretation in 2019; ancient ancestry, modern identity claims and research custody remain separate.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W061
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::RAKHIGARHI_GENOME_EVIDENCE_HISTORY
HOST: Harappan genome research and descendant publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+SCIENTIFIC+ETHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+SCIENTIFIC+ETHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S062,INSA.S063,INSA.S134
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G050,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000152 | c. 3300–1300 BCE | INDUS-PERIPHERY POPULATION CLUSTERS
ENTITY: Ancient individuals from eastern Iran and Central Asia with Indus-related ancestry
ENTITY_TYPE: POPULATION_NETWORK
EVENT: Genomes outside the civilisation’s core reveal a diverse ancestry cline associated with Indus-periphery populations; sampling labels are not a named ethnic group.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W020,W021,W022,W023,W024
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POPULATION_NETWORK::INDUS_PERIPHERY_POPULATION_CLUSTERS
HOST: Ancient individuals from eastern Iran and Central Asia with Indus-related ancestry; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S063
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000153 | c. 2000–1000 BCE | POST-INDUS ANCESTRY MIXING
ENTITY: South and Central Asian populations
ENTITY_TYPE: POPULATION_PROCESS
EVENT: Genetic models support additional steppe-related ancestry entering and mixing in South Asia after the Mature Harappan period, with sex-biased and regionally variable processes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POPULATION_PROCESS::POST_INDUS_ANCESTRY_MIXING
HOST: South and Central Asian populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC
CLAIM_STATUS: MODELLED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S063
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000154 | c. 2000–1000 BCE | GENES DO NOT NAME LANGUAGES
ENTITY: Ancient populations, languages and interpretive models
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_RULE
EVENT: Genetic ancestry can test biological relatedness but cannot by itself identify an individual’s language, ritual, caste, polity or self-understanding.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_RULE::GENES_DO_NOT_NAME_LANGUAGES
HOST: Ancient populations, languages and interpretive models; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+LINGUISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+LINGUISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: INTEGRATION_NON_IDENTITY
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S062,INSA.S063
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000155 | c. 1800–1000 BCE | SWAT OR GANDHARA GRAVE TRADITIONS
ENTITY: Swat Valley burial communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON
EVENT: Cemeteries, material change and population movement document plural highland-valley histories; older culture-historical equations with a single invading people are not retained.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W023,W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON::SWAT_OR_GANDHARA_GRAVE_TRADITIONS
HOST: Swat Valley burial communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S063,INSA.S067,INSA.S070
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G054,INSA.G056
CA.INSA.000156 | c. 3000–1000 BCE | BURZAHOM AND KASHMIR NEOLITHIC-MEGALITHIC SEQUENCES
ENTITY: Kashmir Valley communities
ENTITY_TYPE: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK
EVENT: Pit dwellings, farming, herding, hunting and mortuary practices create a distinct highland sequence connected to but not absorbed by Indus and Central Asian histories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W021,W022,W023,W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: SETTLEMENT_NETWORK::BURZAHOM_AND_KASHMIR_NEOLITHIC_MEGALITHIC_SEQUENCES
HOST: Kashmir Valley communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S064,INSA.S067
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G055,INSA.G088
CA.INSA.000157 | Neolithic to medieval burials; published 2025 | KASHMIR ANCIENT MITOGENOME STUDY
ENTITY: Buried individuals, maternal lineages and research teams
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: Ancient mitochondrial genomes published in 2025 indicate complex maternal population histories in Kashmir; small and uneven samples do not define whole cultures.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W016,W017,W018,W019,W020,W021,W022,W023,W024,W025,W026,W027,W028,W029,W030,W031,W032,W033,W034,W035,W036,W037,W038,W039,W040,W041,W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::KASHMIR_ANCIENT_MITOGENOME_STUDY
HOST: Buried individuals, maternal lineages and research teams; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S064
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G055,INSA.G088
CA.INSA.000158 | c. 1500–1000 BCE | RIGVEDIC ORAL COMPOSITION HORIZON
ENTITY: Indo-Aryan-speaking ritual-poetic communities
ENTITY_TYPE: ORAL_INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Hymns were composed and transmitted orally across changing northwest settings; textual landscapes, archaeology and later redaction must not be collapsed into exact event coordinates.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ORAL_INFORMATION_SYSTEM::RIGVEDIC_ORAL_COMPOSITION_HORIZON
HOST: Indo-Aryan-speaking ritual-poetic communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+LINGUISTIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+LINGUISTIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S063,INSA.S067,INSA.S068
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G061,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000159 | c. 1500–1000 BCE | HORSE AND CHARIOT CAPABILITY INTERFACE
ENTITY: Northwest South Asian and steppe-connected communities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSPORT_MILITARY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Horse and chariot practices enter or intensify through broader Eurasian interaction, but individual artefacts do not identify an entire population or political conquest.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W024,W025
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRANSPORT_MILITARY_SYSTEM::HORSE_AND_CHARIOT_CAPABILITY_INTERFACE
HOST: Northwest South Asian and steppe-connected communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+GENETIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S063,INSA.S067,INSA.S068
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G025
CA.INSA.000160 | c. 1200–800 BCE | IRON ADOPTION ACROSS NORTHWEST INTERFACES
ENTITY: Metalworkers, farmers and armed groups
ENTITY_TYPE: METALLURGICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Iron production and use expand unevenly alongside continuing copper alloys; adoption is regional and does not define one Iron Age people.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W025,W026
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: METALLURGICAL_SYSTEM::IRON_ADOPTION_ACROSS_NORTHWEST_INTERFACES
HOST: Metalworkers, farmers and armed groups; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHAEOMETALLURGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029
CA.INSA.000161 | c. 1000–600 BCE | EARLY GANDHARA REGIONAL FORMATION
ENTITY: Peshawar basin, Taxila valleys, Swat and adjoining communities
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Settlement, iron use, routes and cultural interaction form the antecedent field later named Gandhara; retrospective boundaries remain approximate.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W026,W027
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: REGIONAL_SYSTEM::EARLY_GANDHARA_REGIONAL_FORMATION
HOST: Peshawar basin, Taxila valleys, Swat and adjoining communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_1
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068,INSA.S070
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000162 | c. sixth century BCE | GANDARA IN ACHAEMENID IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHY
ENTITY: Gandara communities and Achaemenid administration
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_PROVINCE
EVENT: Old Persian royal lists attest Gandara within the empire, while actual administrative reach and local negotiation varied across valleys and routes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W027,W028
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_PROVINCE::GANDARA_IN_ACHAEMENID_IMPERIAL_GEOGRAPHY
HOST: Gandara communities and Achaemenid administration; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S071,INSA.S072
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082
CA.INSA.000163 | c. sixth–fourth centuries BCE | HINDUSH ACHAEMENID INTERFACE
ENTITY: Lower-Indus communities and Achaemenid imperial networks
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_PROVINCE
EVENT: A province or tribute region named Hindush connects lower Indus areas to imperial taxation, military and exchange systems; its exact boundaries are disputed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W027,W028,W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_PROVINCE::HINDUSH_ACHAEMENID_INTERFACE
HOST: Lower-Indus communities and Achaemenid imperial networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S071,INSA.S072
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000164 | c. sixth–fourth centuries BCE | ACHAEMENID ROAD, TAX AND MILITARY FLOWS
ENTITY: Imperial officials, soldiers, couriers, taxpayers and local authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Imperial capability moves through routes, tribute, multilingual administration and recruited forces, but local hosts mediate its effective reach.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W027,W028,W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM::ACHAEMENID_ROAD_TAX_AND_MILITARY_FLOWS
HOST: Imperial officials, soldiers, couriers, taxpayers and local authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S071,INSA.S072
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G013
CA.INSA.000165 | c. fifth–fourth centuries BCE | ARAMAIC ADMINISTRATIVE INTERFACE
ENTITY: Aramaic scribes, imperial offices and northwest communities
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Imperial Aramaic provides a portable administrative host whose scripts and conventions influence later regional writing without erasing other languages or media.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::ARAMAIC_ADMINISTRATIVE_INTERFACE
HOST: Aramaic scribes, imperial offices and northwest communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+LINGUISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+LINGUISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S071,INSA.S072,INSA.S076,INSA.S077
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G009
CA.INSA.000166 | c. fourth–third centuries BCE | KHAROSTHI SCRIPT FORMS
ENTITY: Northwest scribes and Gandhari-language hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Kharosthi develops from Aramaic-related graphic practice and is adapted to regional languages, demonstrating host-conditioned expression rather than simple copying.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W029,W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::KHAROSTHI_SCRIPT_FORMS
HOST: Northwest scribes and Gandhari-language hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+LINGUISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+LINGUISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: HOST_CONDITIONED_EXPRESSION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S076,INSA.S077,INSA.S082,INSA.S083
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G034
CA.INSA.000167 | c. sixth–fourth centuries BCE | BHIR MOUND TAXILA
ENTITY: Taxila households, craftspeople, merchants and authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Bhir Mound grows at a strategic route junction before and during Achaemenid and Macedonian interfaces; urban continuity does not imply one continuous polity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W027,W028,W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME2_ARCHAEOLOGICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::BHIR_MOUND_TAXILA
HOST: Taxila households, craftspeople, merchants and authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S078,INSA.S085
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G057
CA.INSA.000168 | 327–326 BCE | ALEXANDER’S NORTHWEST CAMPAIGNS
ENTITY: Macedonian-led army and northwest polities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN
EVENT: Sieges, alliances, resistance and forced movement carry Macedonian power across the Hindu Kush, Swat and Indus zones; narrative sources are later and partisan.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN::ALEXANDER_S_NORTHWEST_CAMPAIGNS
HOST: Macedonian-led army and northwest polities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073,INSA.S074
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G062,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000169 | 326 BCE | TAXILA ALLIANCE
ENTITY: Taxila ruler conventionally called Taxiles, local elites and Alexander
ENTITY_TYPE: DIPLOMATIC_RELATION
EVENT: A local ruler allies with Alexander, illustrating negotiated gateway control rather than uniform Macedonian conquest of all Gandhara.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DIPLOMATIC_RELATION::TAXILA_ALLIANCE
HOST: Taxila ruler conventionally called Taxiles, local elites and Alexander; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073,INSA.S074,INSA.S085
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G057
CA.INSA.000170 | 326 BCE | BATTLE OF THE HYDASPES
ENTITY: Alexander’s forces, Porus’s forces and Jhelum landscape
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_EVENT
EVENT: A major battle east of the Indus leads to a reconfigured local kingship under Macedonian supremacy; troop numbers and speeches in ancient narratives are not taken literally.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_EVENT::BATTLE_OF_THE_HYDASPES
HOST: Alexander’s forces, Porus’s forces and Jhelum landscape; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+GEOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+GEOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073,INSA.S074
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G006
CA.INSA.000171 | 326 BCE | HYPHASIS MUTINY AND EASTWARD LIMIT
ENTITY: Macedonian-led army at the Beas
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_EVENT
EVENT: Soldiers refuse further eastward campaigning, converting army cohesion and monsoon-logistics limits into an imperial boundary.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_EVENT::HYPHASIS_MUTINY_AND_EASTWARD_LIMIT
HOST: Macedonian-led army at the Beas; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G009
CA.INSA.000172 | 325 BCE | INDUS DESCENT AND MALLIAN CAMPAIGN
ENTITY: Macedonian-led forces and lower-Indus communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN
EVENT: River movement, assaults and resistance impose severe violence while assembling knowledge and transport for withdrawal.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN::INDUS_DESCENT_AND_MALLIAN_CAMPAIGN
HOST: Macedonian-led forces and lower-Indus communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000173 | 325 BCE | GEDROSIAN-MAKRAN RETURN
ENTITY: Macedonian-led army, camp followers and Makran hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MOBILITY
EVENT: The overland return through Gedrosia produces heavy loss through logistics, heat, water scarcity and command decisions; exact casualty figures are uncertain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FORCED_MOBILITY::GEDROSIAN_MAKRAN_RETURN
HOST: Macedonian-led army, camp followers and Makran hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+GEOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+GEOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S073
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G011
CA.INSA.000174 | late fourth century BCE | SELEUCID-MAURYAN SETTLEMENT
ENTITY: Seleucus I, Chandragupta Maurya and frontier authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: DIPLOMATIC_RELATION
EVENT: War and treaty transfer or recognise control in eastern satrapal zones and create diplomatic exchange; precise territorial clauses survive indirectly.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W029
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DIPLOMATIC_RELATION::SELEUCID_MAURYAN_SETTLEMENT
HOST: Seleucus I, Chandragupta Maurya and frontier authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068,INSA.S074
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G060,INSA.G072
CA.INSA.000175 | c. 321–185 BCE | MAURYAN NORTHWEST GOVERNANCE
ENTITY: Mauryan administration and northwest populations
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Taxation, roads, garrisons, officials and moral-political messaging connect the northwest to a large imperial system with locally variable reach.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W029,W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::MAURYAN_NORTHWEST_GOVERNANCE
HOST: Mauryan administration and northwest populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068,INSA.S075
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G060,INSA.G100
CA.INSA.000176 | c. 260 BCE | ASHOKAN EDICTS AT SHAHBAZGARHI
ENTITY: Ashoka’s administration, Kharosthi readers and local publics
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Rock edicts encode imperial ethical and administrative messages in Kharosthi and a regional language host; placement, literacy and oral mediation shape access.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE::ASHOKAN_EDICTS_AT_SHAHBAZGARHI
HOST: Ashoka’s administration, Kharosthi readers and local publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S075,INSA.S076,INSA.S083
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G058
CA.INSA.000177 | c. 260 BCE | ASHOKAN EDICTS AT MANSEHRA
ENTITY: Ashoka’s administration, Kharosthi readers and Hazara publics
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Major rock edicts create a durable communication node on a northern corridor, without proving that all subjects read them directly.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE::ASHOKAN_EDICTS_AT_MANSEHRA
HOST: Ashoka’s administration, Kharosthi readers and Hazara publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S075,INSA.S077,INSA.S083
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G059
CA.INSA.000178 | third century BCE onward | BUDDHIST INSTITUTIONAL GROWTH IN GANDHARA
ENTITY: Monastics, donors, artisans, pilgrims and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_SYSTEM
EVENT: Monasteries, stupas, texts, teaching and patronage expand through several political regimes; Buddhism is neither imported once nor socially uniform.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030,W031,W032,W033,W034
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_SYSTEM::BUDDHIST_INSTITUTIONAL_GROWTH_IN_GANDHARA
HOST: Monastics, donors, artisans, pilgrims and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S079,INSA.S081,INSA.S082
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G056
CA.INSA.000179 | c. second century BCE | MAURYAN FRAGMENTATION AND REGIONAL POLITIES
ENTITY: Northwest authorities and former imperial hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION
EVENT: Mauryan coordination recedes while local and transregional powers compete; institutional residues do not constitute unchanged sovereignty.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION::MAURYAN_FRAGMENTATION_AND_REGIONAL_POLITIES
HOST: Northwest authorities and former imperial hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S068,INSA.S075
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G063,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000180 | c. 200–130 BCE | INDO-GREEK RULE IN TAXILA AND GANDHARA
ENTITY: Indo-Greek rulers and diverse subject communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: Hellenistic successor rulers govern parts of the northwest through cities, mints and armies while adopting regional titles, languages and symbols.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::INDO_GREEK_RULE_IN_TAXILA_AND_GANDHARA
HOST: Indo-Greek rulers and diverse subject communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S074,INSA.S078,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G061,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000181 | c. 165–130 BCE | MENANDER’S KINGSHIP AND MEMORY
ENTITY: Menander, mint systems and Buddhist literary memory
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGSHIP
EVENT: Coins securely attest a wide-ranging Indo-Greek ruler; later Buddhist dialogue traditions preserve a transformed memory and are not contemporary court transcripts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KINGSHIP::MENANDER_S_KINGSHIP_AND_MEMORY
HOST: Menander, mint systems and Buddhist literary memory; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S074,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000182 | second–first centuries BCE | SIRKAP PLANNED CITY
ENTITY: Sirkap residents, craftspeople and successive rulers
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: A gridded city at Taxila carries Indo-Greek, Saka, Parthian and local building histories through repeated political change.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W030,W031
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::SIRKAP_PLANNED_CITY
HOST: Sirkap residents, craftspeople and successive rulers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S078,INSA.S085
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044
CA.INSA.000183 | first century BCE–first century CE | SAKA OR INDO-SCYTHIAN POLITIES
ENTITY: Saka rulers, migrants and northwest communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: Steppe-connected elites establish kingdoms and satrapal systems while material and linguistic life remains mixed and locally hosted.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W031,W032
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::SAKA_OR_INDO_SCYTHIAN_POLITIES
HOST: Saka rulers, migrants and northwest communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S074,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G062,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000184 | first century CE | INDO-PARTHIAN RULE
ENTITY: Gondophares and Indo-Parthian authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: Coinage and inscriptions attest changing rule across parts of Gandhara and the northwest; later apostolic traditions require separate source evaluation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::INDO_PARTHIAN_RULE
HOST: Gondophares and Indo-Parthian authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S074,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G061,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000185 | first–third centuries CE | KUSHAN IMPERIAL INTEGRATION
ENTITY: Kushan rulers and Central/South Asian hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: A mobile-origin dynasty links Bactria, Gandhara and northern South Asia through armies, mints, cities, routes and plural religious patronage.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::KUSHAN_IMPERIAL_INTEGRATION
HOST: Kushan rulers and Central/South Asian hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S080,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G002,INSA.G064
CA.INSA.000186 | second century CE, approximate | KANISHKA AND PURUSHAPURA
ENTITY: Kanishka, Peshawar institutions and imperial networks
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGSHIP
EVENT: Kanishka’s reign makes Purushapura a major political and Buddhist patronage centre, but absolute accession chronology remains debated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: CONTESTED
WORLD_BANDS: W032
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KINGSHIP::KANISHKA_AND_PURUSHAPURA
HOST: Kanishka, Peshawar institutions and imperial networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Absolute regnal chronology remains debated
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S080,INSA.S081
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G065,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000187 | first–third centuries CE | GANDHARAN ART WORKSHOP NETWORKS
ENTITY: Sculptors, patrons, quarries, monasteries and viewers
ENTITY_TYPE: ARTISTIC_SYSTEM
EVENT: Workshops combine regional, Iranian, Hellenistic and South Asian forms in host-specific production; no one culture owns every component or invents the synthesis alone.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ARTISTIC_SYSTEM::GANDHARAN_ART_WORKSHOP_NETWORKS
HOST: Sculptors, patrons, quarries, monasteries and viewers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ART_HISTORICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ART_HISTORICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CAPABILITY_PROVENANCE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S081,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000188 | first–fourth centuries CE | ANTHROPOMORPHIC BUDDHA IMAGE EXPANSION
ENTITY: Gandharan and Mathuran workshops, patrons and devotees
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_ART_SYSTEM
EVENT: Human-form Buddha images become widespread through parallel and interacting workshop traditions; priority claims remain separate from transmission evidence.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_ART_SYSTEM::ANTHROPOMORPHIC_BUDDHA_IMAGE_EXPANSION
HOST: Gandharan and Mathuran workshops, patrons and devotees; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ART_HISTORICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ART_HISTORICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CONVERGENCE_RUNTIME
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S081,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G068,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000189 | first–fourth centuries CE | GANDHARI BUDDHIST MANUSCRIPTS
ENTITY: Scribes, monastics, birch-bark scrolls and repositories
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Gandhari texts in Kharosthi carry Buddhist teaching across fragile material hosts; survival is exceptional and highly archive-biased.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::GANDHARI_BUDDHIST_MANUSCRIPTS
HOST: Scribes, monastics, birch-bark scrolls and repositories; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MANUSCRIPT+LINGUISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: MANUSCRIPT+LINGUISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ARCHIVE_BIAS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S082,INSA.S083
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G067
CA.INSA.000190 | first–fourth centuries CE | TAXILA AS KNOWLEDGE AND ROUTE NODE
ENTITY: Teachers, students, merchants, monks and urban residents
ENTITY_TYPE: GATEWAY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Taxila connects routes and learning communities, but later descriptions of a single university must not be projected onto dispersed teachers and institutions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GATEWAY_SYSTEM::TAXILA_AS_KNOWLEDGE_AND_ROUTE_NODE
HOST: Teachers, students, merchants, monks and urban residents; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S078,INSA.S085
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G057
CA.INSA.000191 | first–seventh centuries CE | TAKHT-I-BAHI MONASTIC COMPLEX
ENTITY: Monastic communities, donors, workers and visitors
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: A hilltop monastery grows through courts, stupas, cells and service spaces; spiritual authority, property, labour and present heritage custody are distinct relations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033,W034,W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_INFRASTRUCTURE::TAKHT_I_BAHI_MONASTIC_COMPLEX
HOST: Monastic communities, donors, workers and visitors; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S079,INSA.S081
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G066
CA.INSA.000192 | first–fifth centuries CE | SILK-ROAD AND INNER-ASIAN CONNECTORS
ENTITY: Merchants, pilgrims, envoys, translators and mountain hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Gandhara participates in branching routes joining South Asia, Central Asia, Iran and China; the label Silk Road does not denote one road or authority.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W032,W033,W034
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: INTERREGIONAL_SYSTEM::SILK_ROAD_AND_INNER_ASIAN_CONNECTORS
HOST: Merchants, pilgrims, envoys, translators and mountain hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S080,INSA.S082
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G070
CA.INSA.000193 | third–fourth centuries CE | KUSHAN POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION
ENTITY: Kushan successor authorities and regional hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION
EVENT: Imperial control contracts and divides while coinage, artistic, Buddhist and trade capabilities continue in changed institutions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION::KUSHAN_POLITICAL_FRAGMENTATION
HOST: Kushan successor authorities and regional hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: FISSION_RESIDUE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S080,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G064,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000194 | third–fourth centuries CE | SASANIAN-KUSHAN INTERFACE
ENTITY: Sasanian authorities, Kushanshahs and northwest populations
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_INTERFACE
EVENT: Iranian imperial power reaches parts of the northwest through subordinate kingship, coinage and military pressure, with shifting rather than fixed frontiers.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W033
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_INTERFACE::SASANIAN_KUSHAN_INTERFACE
HOST: Sasanian authorities, Kushanshahs and northwest populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: CONTACT_OR_TRANSLATION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+EPIGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G002,INSA.G064
CA.INSA.000195 | fourth–fifth centuries CE | KIDARITE POLITIES
ENTITY: Kidarite rulers and Gandharan hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: New rulers reproduce and alter Kushan-derived monetary and political forms within Central Asian and Iranian pressure fields.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W033,W034
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::KIDARITE_POLITIES
HOST: Kidarite rulers and Gandharan hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: FISSION_RESIDUE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G067,INSA.G068
CA.INSA.000196 | fifth–sixth centuries CE | ALCHON HUN AND HEPHTHALITE PRESSURES
ENTITY: Alchon, Hephthalite and northwest communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_POLITICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Mobile military elites establish changing power across Gandhara and adjacent regions, disrupting some institutions while interacting with local hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_POLITICAL_SYSTEM::ALCHON_HUN_AND_HEPHTHALITE_PRESSURES
HOST: Alchon, Hephthalite and northwest communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S084
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000197 | fifth–seventh centuries CE | BUDDHIST MONASTIC CONTRACTION IS UNEVEN
ENTITY: Gandharan monasteries and supporting communities
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_SYSTEM
EVENT: Patronage and occupancy decline or transform at different sites under political, economic and religious change; there is no single regional closure date.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034,W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_SYSTEM::BUDDHIST_MONASTIC_CONTRACTION_IS_UNEVEN
HOST: Gandharan monasteries and supporting communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ASYNCHRONOUS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S079,INSA.S081,INSA.S082
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G067,INSA.G068
CA.INSA.000198 | seventh century CE | XUANZANG’S GANDHARA OBSERVATIONS
ENTITY: Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang, monasteries and local communities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRAVEL_ACCOUNT
EVENT: A pilgrim record describes active and ruined Buddhist institutions through a devotional itinerary; observation, hearsay and remembered past remain separable.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRAVEL_ACCOUNT::XUANZANG_S_GANDHARA_OBSERVATIONS
HOST: Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang, monasteries and local communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S070,INSA.S079,INSA.S085
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G056
CA.INSA.000199 | c. 600–1000 CE | KABUL SHAHI AND HINDU SHAHI POLITIES
ENTITY: Kabul and Hindu Shahi rulers and frontier communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: Successive dynasties control parts of Kabul, Gandhara and Punjab through forts, tribute and alliances; religious labels do not exhaust their political composition.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035,W036
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::KABUL_SHAHI_AND_HINDU_SHAHI_POLITIES
HOST: Kabul and Hindu Shahi rulers and frontier communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S068,INSA.S086,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G063,INSA.G072
CA.INSA.000200 | c. 489–632 CE | RAI DYNASTY IN SINDH
ENTITY: Rai rulers and Sindh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM
EVENT: Later textual traditions and limited archaeology reconstruct a pre-conquest Sindhi polity; chronology and institutions remain partly uncertain.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W034,W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KINGDOM::RAI_DYNASTY_IN_SINDH
HOST: Rai rulers and Sindh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B/C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S087
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G069,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000201 | c. 632–712 CE | BRAHMAN DYNASTY IN SINDH
ENTITY: Chach-associated rulers and Sindh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM
EVENT: A successor ruling house appears in later conquest narratives whose literary purposes and retrospective identity construction require caution.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KINGDOM::BRAHMAN_DYNASTY_IN_SINDH
HOST: Chach-associated rulers and Sindh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence C; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S087
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G069,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000202 | 711–715 CE | UMAYYAD CONQUEST OF SINDH
ENTITY: Muhammad ibn Qasim’s forces, Sindhi polities and affected populations
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CONQUEST
EVENT: Campaigns establish Arab imperial control over parts of Sindh and Multan through battle, treaties, taxation and coercion; reach varies beyond garrisons.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W035
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CONQUEST::UMAYYAD_CONQUEST_OF_SINDH
HOST: Muhammad ibn Qasim’s forces, Sindhi polities and affected populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S087,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G069,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000203 | eighth–ninth centuries CE | MANSURA ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE
ENTITY: Governors, merchants, artisans and residents of Mansura
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: An Islamic-era city anchors provincial administration, minting and trade in Sindh while older rural and religious systems persist around it.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035,W036
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::MANSURA_ADMINISTRATIVE_CENTRE
HOST: Governors, merchants, artisans and residents of Mansura; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S067,INSA.S087,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G051
CA.INSA.000204 | eighth–eleventh centuries CE | MULTAN RELIGIOUS-COMMERCIAL NODE
ENTITY: Multan rulers, temple custodians, Ismaili networks and merchants
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Control, taxation and ritual authority shift among regimes while the city’s route and revenue functions endure in altered hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035,W036,W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::MULTAN_RELIGIOUS_COMMERCIAL_NODE
HOST: Multan rulers, temple custodians, Ismaili networks and merchants; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S086,INSA.S088,INSA.S091
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000205 | eighth–twelfth centuries CE | GRADUAL ISLAMISATION OF SINDH AND PUNJAB
ENTITY: Converts, Muslim communities, non-Muslim communities and institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_TRANSFORMATION
EVENT: Islamic practice and identity expand through settlement, intermarriage, patronage, trade, law and devotion over centuries; conquest is not an instantaneous conversion event.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W035,W036,W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_TRANSFORMATION::GRADUAL_ISLAMISATION_OF_SINDH_AND_PUNJAB
HOST: Converts, Muslim communities, non-Muslim communities and institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ASYNCHRONOUS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S087,INSA.S088,INSA.S090
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000206 | ninth–eleventh centuries CE | ISMAILI DAWA AND SINDH-MULTAN NETWORKS
ENTITY: Ismaili missionaries, rulers and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_POLITICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Mission, political authority and transregional Fatimid connections create a contested religious-political network in Multan and Sindh.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W036,W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_POLITICAL_SYSTEM::ISMAILI_DAWA_AND_SINDH_MULTAN_NETWORKS
HOST: Ismaili missionaries, rulers and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S091
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000207 | 977–1186 CE | GHAZNAVID IMPERIAL SYSTEM
ENTITY: Ghaznavid rulers, armies, officials, scholars and subject communities
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: A Persianate military-fiscal state centred at Ghazna controls changing parts of the northwest and Punjab, moving revenue, captives, soldiers and culture across frontiers.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W036,W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::GHAZNAVID_IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
HOST: Ghaznavid rulers, armies, officials, scholars and subject communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S086,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G073,INSA.G082
CA.INSA.000208 | 1001 CE | BATTLE NEAR PESHAWAR
ENTITY: Mahmud of Ghazna, Jayapala and their forces
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_EVENT
EVENT: Ghaznavid victory weakens Shahi power and alters frontier control; later moralised narratives must be separated from the political event.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_EVENT::BATTLE_NEAR_PESHAWAR
HOST: Mahmud of Ghazna, Jayapala and their forces; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S086,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G065
CA.INSA.000209 | eleventh–twelfth centuries CE | LAHORE AS GHAZNAVID REGIONAL CAPITAL
ENTITY: Lahore residents, administrators, scholars and military networks
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Lahore grows as an eastern administrative and cultural centre after Ghaznavid power shifts, demonstrating capital function migrating between hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::LAHORE_AS_GHAZNAVID_REGIONAL_CAPITAL
HOST: Lahore residents, administrators, scholars and military networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: FUNCTIONAL_HOST_MIGRATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S086,INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000210 | 1175–1206 CE | GHURID CAMPAIGNS AND SUCCESSION
ENTITY: Ghurid rulers, military slaves, northwest polities and urban hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_POLITICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Ghurid conquest displaces Ghaznavid authority and seeds institutions later reproduced by Delhi-based sultanates.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W037
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_POLITICAL_SYSTEM::GHURID_CAMPAIGNS_AND_SUCCESSION
HOST: Ghurid rulers, military slaves, northwest polities and urban hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: MODULE_SEED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S089
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G062,INSA.G063
CA.INSA.000211 | 1206–1526 CE | DELHI SULTANATE NORTHWEST FRONTIER
ENTITY: Sultanate rulers, governors, garrisons and Punjab-Sindh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_FRONTIER
EVENT: Lahore, Multan, Dipalpur and routes function as revenue and defence zones under changing dynasties, with frontier control repeatedly lost and rebuilt.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W038,W039,W040,W041
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_FRONTIER::DELHI_SULTANATE_NORTHWEST_FRONTIER
HOST: Sultanate rulers, governors, garrisons and Punjab-Sindh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S089
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G074,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000212 | thirteenth century CE | MONGOL PRESSURE ON THE INDUS FRONTIER
ENTITY: Mongol forces, refugees, Delhi forces and urban communities
ENTITY_TYPE: PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Raids, invasions and refugee movement reshape fortification, military finance and settlement across Punjab and Sindh.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W038
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PRESSURE_FIELD::MONGOL_PRESSURE_ON_THE_INDUS_FRONTIER
HOST: Mongol forces, refugees, Delhi forces and urban communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S089
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000213 | thirteenth–sixteenth centuries CE | SUFI KHANQAH AND SHRINE NETWORKS
ENTITY: Sufis, disciples, patrons, workers and pilgrims
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_SOCIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Lodges and shrines carry teaching, charity, mediation, memory and landed power; devotion, economy and political patronage remain distinct functions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W038,W039,W040,W041
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_SOCIAL_SYSTEM::SUFI_KHANQAH_AND_SHRINE_NETWORKS
HOST: Sufis, disciples, patrons, workers and pilgrims; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S090
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G075,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000214 | fourteenth–sixteenth centuries CE | SINDHI AND PUNJABI VERNACULAR LITERARY HOSTS
ENTITY: Poets, performers, scribes and audiences
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Oral, manuscript and musical traditions carry regional languages and devotional ideas across courts, shrines and households; surviving canon reflects archive and patronage bias.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W039,W040,W041
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::SINDHI_AND_PUNJABI_VERNACULAR_LITERARY_HOSTS
HOST: Poets, performers, scribes and audiences; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+LINGUISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+LINGUISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ARCHIVE_BIAS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S090,INSA.S097
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000215 | 1398 CE | TIMUR’S INDUS CROSSING AND INVASION ROUTE
ENTITY: Timurid army and affected northwest communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN
EVENT: An army crosses the Indus en route to Delhi, extracting supplies and inflicting violence; passage is not durable regional governance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W039
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN::TIMUR_S_INDUS_CROSSING_AND_INVASION_ROUTE
HOST: Timurid army and affected northwest communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S089
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000216 | fifteenth–sixteenth centuries CE | LANGAH AND ARGHUN-TARKHAN POLITIES
ENTITY: Multan and Sindh ruling houses and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KINGDOM_NETWORK
EVENT: Regional dynasties govern trade, agriculture and towns amid Delhi, Central Asian and Persianate interaction, resisting a simple imperial interval narrative.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W040,W041
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: KINGDOM_NETWORK::LANGAH_AND_ARGHUN_TARKHAN_POLITIES
HOST: Multan and Sindh ruling houses and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G070,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000217 | 1526–1707 CE | MUGHAL IMPERIAL INTEGRATION
ENTITY: Mughal rulers, mansabdars, revenue officials and northwest populations
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Punjab, Sindh and frontier routes enter a large military-fiscal and commercial system whose control depends on negotiated local hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W041,W042
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::MUGHAL_IMPERIAL_INTEGRATION
HOST: Mughal rulers, mansabdars, revenue officials and northwest populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+EPIGRAPHIC+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S093
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G076
CA.INSA.000218 | 1586 CE | MUGHAL ANNEXATION OF KASHMIR
ENTITY: Mughal forces, Kashmir rulers and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_TRANSITION
EVENT: Kashmir is incorporated into Mughal sovereignty through military and political action, producing elite, revenue and ecological transformations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W041
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_TRANSITION::MUGHAL_ANNEXATION_OF_KASHMIR
HOST: Mughal forces, Kashmir rulers and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S093
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G076,INSA.G088
CA.INSA.000219 | sixteenth–seventeenth centuries CE | LAHORE IMPERIAL CITY
ENTITY: Lahore residents, court, artisans, builders and gardens
ENTITY_TYPE: CITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Lahore serves intermittently as imperial residence and administrative centre, concentrating craft and architecture while relying on rural revenue and labour.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041,W042
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CITY_SYSTEM::LAHORE_IMPERIAL_CITY
HOST: Lahore residents, court, artisans, builders and gardens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHITECTURAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHITECTURAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S093
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G071
CA.INSA.000220 | sixteenth–eighteenth centuries CE | INDUS RIVERINE AND CARAVAN COMMERCE
ENTITY: Boat crews, merchants, pastoralists, market towns and customs authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRADE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Grain, textiles, animals, salt and people move through river and overland chains shaped by tolls, seasonality and security.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W041,W042,W043
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRADE_SYSTEM::INDUS_RIVERINE_AND_CARAVAN_COMMERCE
HOST: Boat crews, merchants, pastoralists, market towns and customs authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S093,INSA.S097
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000221 | 1469–1539 CE and after | GURU NANAK AND SIKH TRADITION FORMATION
ENTITY: Guru Nanak, successor Gurus, sangats and Punjabi publics
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_SOCIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Teachings, congregations, scripture, institutions and later sovereignty develop across distinct phases; founder biography is not a complete history of the community.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W040,W041,W042,W043,W044
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_SOCIAL_SYSTEM::GURU_NANAK_AND_SIKH_TRADITION_FORMATION
HOST: Guru Nanak, successor Gurus, sangats and Punjabi publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+MANUSCRIPT+EPIGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+MANUSCRIPT+EPIGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G077,INSA.G080
CA.INSA.000222 | 1604 CE | ADI GRANTH COMPILATION
ENTITY: Guru Arjan, contributors, scribes and Sikh congregations
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: A compiled scripture establishes a durable textual-authority host while performance, interpretation and custody remain living community relations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_SYSTEM::ADI_GRANTH_COMPILATION
HOST: Guru Arjan, contributors, scribes and Sikh congregations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MANUSCRIPT+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: MANUSCRIPT+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G077
CA.INSA.000223 | 1699 CE | KHALSA FORMATION
ENTITY: Guru Gobind Singh and initiated Sikh community
ENTITY_TYPE: RELIGIOUS_POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION
EVENT: Initiation disciplines and collective identity reorganise Sikh capability under Mughal conflict without erasing earlier or non-Khalsa Sikh histories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W042
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: RELIGIOUS_POLITICAL_TRANSFORMATION::KHALSA_FORMATION
HOST: Guru Gobind Singh and initiated Sikh community; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G077
CA.INSA.000224 | seventeenth–eighteenth centuries CE | KALAT KHANATE AND BALOCH-BRAHUI CONFEDERATION
ENTITY: Khanate of Kalat, tribal authorities and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: CONFEDERATED_POLITY
EVENT: A negotiated confederative system coordinates tribute, routes and armed power across Baluchistan with changing autonomy and internal authority.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W042,W043,W044
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CONFEDERATED_POLITY::KALAT_KHANATE_AND_BALOCH_BRAHUI_CONFEDERATION
HOST: Khanate of Kalat, tribal authorities and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+POLITICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+POLITICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095,INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G078
CA.INSA.000225 | 1739 CE | NADIR SHAH’S INVASION CORRIDOR
ENTITY: Afsharid army and northwest communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN
EVENT: Invasion through the northwest breaks Mughal military credibility and extracts people and wealth without installing stable administration everywhere passed.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W043
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN::NADIR_SHAH_S_INVASION_CORRIDOR
HOST: Afsharid army and northwest communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S088,INSA.S095
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003
CA.INSA.000226 | 1747–1823 CE | DURRANI IMPERIAL INTERFACE
ENTITY: Durrani rulers, Afghan elites, Sikh powers and Punjab-Sindh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Kandahar- and Kabul-based rulers claim and intermittently control northwest territories through campaigns, tribute and local governors.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W043,W044,W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::DURRANI_IMPERIAL_INTERFACE
HOST: Durrani rulers, Afghan elites, Sikh powers and Punjab-Sindh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_3
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092,INSA.S095
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000227 | eighteenth century CE | SIKH MISLS
ENTITY: Sikh confederacies, local communities and rival powers
ENTITY_TYPE: CONFEDERATED_POLITY
EVENT: Armed confederacies build territorial and revenue capacity in Punjab through shifting alliances rather than one continuous central state.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W043,W044
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_NETWORK
FUNCTION: CONFEDERATED_POLITY::SIKH_MISLS
HOST: Sikh confederacies, local communities and rival powers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G077
CA.INSA.000228 | 1799–1849 CE | SIKH EMPIRE
ENTITY: Ranjit Singh, Lahore court, Khalsa army and diverse subjects
ENTITY_TYPE: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: A centralising state joins much of Punjab, Kashmir and Peshawar through military, revenue and diplomatic systems while frontier control remains negotiated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W044,W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z2_MACROSYSTEM
FUNCTION: IMPERIAL_SYSTEM::SIKH_EMPIRE
HOST: Ranjit Singh, Lahore court, Khalsa army and diverse subjects; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHITECTURAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+NUMISMATIC+ARCHITECTURAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G071,INSA.G077
CA.INSA.000229 | 1783–1843 CE | TALPUR RULE IN SINDH
ENTITY: Talpur amirs and Sindhi-Baloch communities
ENTITY_TYPE: DYNASTIC_STATE
EVENT: Multiple branches govern Sindh through landed, military and riverine systems until British conquest; the polity is not reducible to one household.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W044,W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME3_HISTORICAL
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DYNASTIC_STATE::TALPUR_RULE_IN_SINDH
HOST: Talpur amirs and Sindhi-Baloch communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_2
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G069,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000230 | 1839–1842 CE | FIRST ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR CORRIDOR
ENTITY: British East India Company forces, Afghan polities and Sindh-Punjab route hosts
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN
EVENT: Invasion and retreat move armies, supplies and coercion through northwest routes, exposing the logistical limits of projected imperial reach.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_CAMPAIGN::FIRST_ANGLO_AFGHAN_WAR_CORRIDOR
HOST: British East India Company forces, Afghan polities and Sindh-Punjab route hosts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095,INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000231 | 1843 CE | BRITISH CONQUEST OF SINDH
ENTITY: East India Company forces, Talpur amirs and Sindh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_CONQUEST
EVENT: Military defeat ends Talpur sovereignty and installs colonial revenue and administrative authority; treaty narratives and conquest propaganda require source criticism.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: COLONIAL_CONQUEST::BRITISH_CONQUEST_OF_SINDH
HOST: East India Company forces, Talpur amirs and Sindh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000232 | 1845–1846 CE | FIRST ANGLO-SIKH WAR
ENTITY: Sikh Empire, East India Company and affected Punjab communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_EVENT
EVENT: War weakens Lahore sovereignty and expands British control through treaty, indemnity and garrisoning.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_EVENT::FIRST_ANGLO_SIKH_WAR
HOST: Sikh Empire, East India Company and affected Punjab communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092,INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000233 | 1848–1849 CE | SECOND ANGLO-SIKH WAR AND PUNJAB ANNEXATION
ENTITY: Sikh forces, East India Company and Punjab populations
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_CONQUEST
EVENT: Defeat and annexation end the Sikh Empire and establish direct colonial government across Punjab.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W045
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: COLONIAL_CONQUEST::SECOND_ANGLO_SIKH_WAR_AND_PUNJAB_ANNEXATION
HOST: Sikh forces, East India Company and Punjab populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S092,INSA.S096,INSA.S097
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000234 | 1849–1947 CE | COLONIAL PUNJAB STATE
ENTITY: British administration, princely states, landlords and Punjab communities
ENTITY_TYPE: COLONIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Revenue surveys, law, policing, military recruitment, public works and representative institutions reconfigure land and society through unequal imperial rule.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W045,W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: COLONIAL_SYSTEM::COLONIAL_PUNJAB_STATE
HOST: British administration, princely states, landlords and Punjab communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL+SPATIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL+SPATIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096,INSA.S097,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000235 | 1857–1858 CE | REBELLION AND CROWN TRANSITION
ENTITY: Indian rebels, loyalist forces, civilians and British state
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_MILITARY_TRANSITION
EVENT: Rebellion and repression reshape recruitment and governance; Punjab becomes a major military base as Company rule transfers to the British Crown.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W046
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_MILITARY_TRANSITION::REBELLION_AND_CROWN_TRANSITION
HOST: Indian rebels, loyalist forces, civilians and British state; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096,INSA.S097
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G001,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000236 | 1850s onward | RAILWAY CORRIDOR BUILDOUT
ENTITY: Railway workers, displaced landholders, passengers, freight and colonial authorities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSPORT_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Railways lower some movement costs and intensify grain, cotton, troop and information flows while appropriating land and depending on labour and fuel.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: TRANSPORT_INFRASTRUCTURE::RAILWAY_CORRIDOR_BUILDOUT
HOST: Railway workers, displaced landholders, passengers, freight and colonial authorities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000237 | 1850s onward | TELEGRAPH AND POSTAL STANDARDISATION
ENTITY: Telegraph workers, postal systems, officials and publics
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Faster communication extends state and market coordination, with access stratified by literacy, language, price and surveillance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_INFRASTRUCTURE::TELEGRAPH_AND_POSTAL_STANDARDISATION
HOST: Telegraph workers, postal systems, officials and publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000238 | 1860s–1947 CE | INDUS STEAM NAVIGATION AND RAIL COMPETITION
ENTITY: Boat crews, railway firms, ports and river communities
ENTITY_TYPE: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM
EVENT: Steam and rail attempt to reorganise Indus freight, but river morphology, seasonal depth and network economics condition which host carries transport.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TRANSPORT_SYSTEM::INDUS_STEAM_NAVIGATION_AND_RAIL_COMPETITION
HOST: Boat crews, railway firms, ports and river communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_4
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING
CLAIM_STATUS: HOST_COMPETITION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000239 | 1861–1947 CE | COLONIAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY
ENTITY: Archaeological Survey, local workers, antiquities and communities
ENTITY_TYPE: KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Survey, excavation, classification and collection make an imperial archive while labour credit, removal, typology and custody reproduce colonial asymmetries.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W046,W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM::COLONIAL_ARCHAEOLOGICAL_SURVEY
HOST: Archaeological Survey, local workers, antiquities and communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHIVAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ARCHIVE_BIAS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S135,INSA.S139
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000240 | 1871 onward | CENSUS AND IDENTITY COMPRESSION
ENTITY: Colonial census offices and enumerated communities
ENTITY_TYPE: INFORMATION_GOVERNANCE
EVENT: Enumeration standardises religion, caste, tribe, language and territory into administrative categories that can harden fluid identities and distribute power.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INFORMATION_GOVERNANCE::CENSUS_AND_IDENTITY_COMPRESSION
HOST: Colonial census offices and enumerated communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+DEMOGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+DEMOGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: IDENTITY_COMPRESSION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096,INSA.S097
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000241 | 1870s–1947 CE | CANAL COLONY TRANSFORMATION
ENTITY: Punjab farmers, canal labourers, migrants, military grantees and river ecologies
ENTITY_TYPE: HYDRAULIC_COLONIAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: New canals, planned settlements and land grants enlarge cultivation and state revenue while redistributing property, salinity, disease and ecological risk.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W047,W048,W049,W050,W051,W052,W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: HYDRAULIC_COLONIAL_SYSTEM::CANAL_COLONY_TRANSFORMATION
HOST: Punjab farmers, canal labourers, migrants, military grantees and river ecologies; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING+ENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ENGINEERING+ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S098,INSA.S104
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G083
CA.INSA.000242 | 1878–1893 CE | FRONTIER WARS AND DURAND AGREEMENT
ENTITY: British Indian state, Afghan state and Pashtun-Baloch communities
ENTITY_TYPE: BORDER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Campaigns and the 1893 agreement construct an imperial frontier across mobile social landscapes; line-making does not erase kinship or settle all later legal claims.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W047
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: BORDER_SYSTEM::FRONTIER_WARS_AND_DURAND_AGREEMENT
HOST: British Indian state, Afghan state and Pashtun-Baloch communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=DIPLOMATIC+ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: DIPLOMATIC+ADMINISTRATIVE+TEXTUAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095,INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G072,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000243 | 1901 CE | NORTH-WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE CREATED
ENTITY: Colonial administration and frontier districts
ENTITY_TYPE: ADMINISTRATIVE_REGION
EVENT: Punjab frontier districts are reorganised into a province, turning security doctrine into a durable territorial-administrative host.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W048
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ADMINISTRATIVE_REGION::NORTH_WEST_FRONTIER_PROVINCE_CREATED
HOST: Colonial administration and frontier districts; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S096
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000244 | late nineteenth–early twentieth centuries | INDENTURED, MILITARY AND LABOUR MOBILITY
ENTITY: Punjab and northwest recruits, workers and families
ENTITY_TYPE: MIGRATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: Imperial armies, plantations, ports and construction redistribute people through contracts, recruitment, coercion and household strategy.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: APPROXIMATE
WORLD_BANDS: W047,W048
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MIGRATION_SYSTEM::INDENTURED_MILITARY_AND_LABOUR_MOBILITY
HOST: Punjab and northwest recruits, workers and families; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+DEMOGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+DEMOGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080
CA.INSA.000245 | 1914–1918 CE | FIRST WORLD WAR MOBILISATION
ENTITY: Punjab soldiers, labour corps, taxpayers and families
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Colonial recruitment sends large numbers of soldiers and resources abroad while casualties, remittances and political expectations return to local hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W049
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_SYSTEM::FIRST_WORLD_WAR_MOBILISATION
HOST: Punjab soldiers, labour corps, taxpayers and families; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+MILITARY; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+MILITARY
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080
CA.INSA.000246 | 13 April 1919 | JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE
ENTITY: British Indian troops and unarmed Amritsar gathering
ENTITY_TYPE: STATE_VIOLENCE
EVENT: Troops fire on a trapped crowd, intensifying anti-colonial mobilisation; precise casualty totals differ, while command responsibility and mass violence are secure.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W050
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STATE_VIOLENCE::JALLIANWALA_BAGH_MASSACRE
HOST: British Indian troops and unarmed Amritsar gathering; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TESTIMONIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TESTIMONIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S099
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G024,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000247 | 1919–1924 CE | KHILAFAT AND NON-COOPERATION IN NORTHWEST
ENTITY: Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and anti-colonial political networks
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_MOVEMENT
EVENT: Mass mobilisation links religious concern, anti-colonial politics and local organisation without producing one shared motive among participants.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W050
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_MOVEMENT::KHILAFAT_AND_NON_COOPERATION_IN_NORTHWEST
HOST: Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and anti-colonial political networks; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G084,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000248 | 1921 CE | HARAPPA EXCAVATION RECOGNISES EARLY CITY
ENTITY: Daya Ram Sahni, excavation workers, Archaeological Survey and Harappa remains
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: Excavation exposes an unexpectedly ancient urban sequence; credit must include field labour and earlier find histories, not only institutional directors.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W050
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::HARAPPA_EXCAVATION_RECOGNISES_EARLY_CITY
HOST: Daya Ram Sahni, excavation workers, Archaeological Survey and Harappa remains; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions

LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHIVAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S138,INSA.S139
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G028,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000249 | 1922 CE | MOHENJO-DARO EXCAVATION IDENTIFICATION
ENTITY: R.D. Banerji, local workers, Archaeological Survey and site remains
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: Excavation and comparison identify a major early city whose preservation, ownership and interpretation become transborder heritage questions after 1947.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W050
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::MOHENJO_DARO_EXCAVATION_IDENTIFICATION
HOST: R.D. Banerji, local workers, Archaeological Survey and site remains; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHIVAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVAL+ARCHAEOLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S137,INSA.S139
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000250 | 20 September 1924 | INDUS CIVILISATION PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
ENTITY: John Marshall, Archaeological Survey, discoverers, workers and global publics
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: A widely read announcement places Harappa and Mohenjo-daro within a newly recognised Bronze Age civilisation; publicity is not the civilisation’s discovery by one person.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W050
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::INDUS_CIVILISATION_PUBLIC_ANNOUNCEMENT
HOST: John Marshall, Archaeological Survey, discoverers, workers and global publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHIVAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR4_TRANSREGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR4_MULTIHOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD3_MULTIREGION
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: CAPABILITY_PROVENANCE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S135,INSA.S138,INSA.S139
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000251 | 1920s–1930s CE | LARGE-SCALE INDUS EXCAVATION AND REMOVAL
ENTITY: Archaeologists, labourers, museums, sites and finds
ENTITY_TYPE: KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Horizontal clearance makes city plans legible while discarding some stratigraphic information and moving objects into institutional custody.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W050,W051
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: KNOWLEDGE_SYSTEM::LARGE_SCALE_INDUS_EXCAVATION_AND_REMOVAL
HOST: Archaeologists, labourers, museums, sites and finds; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHIVAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+ARCHIVAL
CLAIM_STATUS: SENSOR_DAMAGE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S135,INSA.S137,INSA.S139
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000252 | 1929–1939 CE | GREAT DEPRESSION AND AGRARIAN PRESSURE
ENTITY: Punjab-Sindh cultivators, creditors, landlords and colonial state
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Price shocks, debt and taxation amplify rural inequality and political organisation across irrigated and rain-fed zones.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W051
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_PRESSURE_FIELD::GREAT_DEPRESSION_AND_AGRARIAN_PRESSURE
HOST: Punjab-Sindh cultivators, creditors, landlords and colonial state; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: PRESSURE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S098
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G080,INSA.G081
CA.INSA.000253 | 1935–1937 CE | PROVINCIAL CONSTITUTIONAL REORDERING
ENTITY: Colonial government, provincial parties and electorates
ENTITY_TYPE: GOVERNANCE_TRANSITION
EVENT: The Government of India Act and provincial elections expand limited representation while preserving imperial veto, restricted franchise and communal categories.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W051
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_TRANSITION::PROVINCIAL_CONSTITUTIONAL_REORDERING
HOST: Colonial government, provincial parties and electorates; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FRACTURE_OR_RELAUNCH
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL4_RECONFIGURING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G081,INSA.G084
CA.INSA.000254 | 23 March 1940 | LAHORE RESOLUTION
ENTITY: All-India Muslim League delegates and political publics
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_EVENT
EVENT: A resolution calls for autonomous or sovereign units in Muslim-majority zones; later Pakistan claims transform its initially non-final constitutional language.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W052
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_EVENT::LAHORE_RESOLUTION
HOST: All-India Muslim League delegates and political publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=TEXTUAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: TEXTUAL+HISTORIOGRAPHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G071,INSA.G087
CA.INSA.000255 | 1939–1945 CE | SECOND WORLD WAR MOBILISATION
ENTITY: Soldiers, industrial workers, farmers and colonial state
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Wartime recruitment, procurement and inflation expand military and industrial capacity while deepening political conflict over unconsented imperial participation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W052
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_SYSTEM::SECOND_WORLD_WAR_MOBILISATION
HOST: Soldiers, industrial workers, farmers and colonial state; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S098,INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G090,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000256 | 1946–1947 CE | DECOLONISATION NEGOTIATION AND BREAKDOWN
ENTITY: British government, Congress, Muslim League, Sikh leaders and provincial actors
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_TRANSITION
EVENT: Competing constitutional projects, election mandates, communal mobilisation and a rushed transfer process converge on partition; responsibility is multi-actor and asymmetrical.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_TRANSITION::DECOLONISATION_NEGOTIATION_AND_BREAKDOWN
HOST: British government, Congress, Muslim League, Sikh leaders and provincial actors; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHIVAL+POLITICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ARCHIVAL+POLITICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S099,INSA.S100,INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G077
CA.INSA.000257 | August 1947 | PARTITION AND STATE CREATION
ENTITY: India, Pakistan, princely states and millions of residents
ENTITY_TYPE: STATE_FISSION
EVENT: British India is partitioned and two dominions form; legal succession, territorial division and lived belonging diverge sharply.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STATE_FISSION::PARTITION_AND_STATE_CREATION
HOST: India, Pakistan, princely states and millions of residents; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ARCHIVAL+DEMOGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ARCHIVAL+DEMOGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: FISSION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S099,INSA.S100,INSA.S101
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000258 | 1947–1951 CE | MASS DISPLACEMENT AND VIOLENCE
ENTITY: Refugees, abducted people, families, militias and states
ENTITY_TYPE: FORCED_MOBILITY
EVENT: Approximately fourteen million people cross new borders amid killings, sexual violence, abduction, dispossession and rescue/recovery regimes; estimates and local experiences vary.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W053,W054
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FORCED_MOBILITY::MASS_DISPLACEMENT_AND_VIOLENCE
HOST: Refugees, abducted people, families, militias and states; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=DEMOGRAPHIC+TESTIMONIAL+ARCHIVAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: DEMOGRAPHIC+TESTIMONIAL+ARCHIVAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S099,INSA.S100
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G051
CA.INSA.000259 | 1947 onward | PARTITIONED INDUS HERITAGE
ENTITY: Pakistan, India, museums, excavators, sites and descendant publics
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Sites, finds, archives and expertise fall under different states and institutions; origin, title, custody, research access, ritual meaning and public authority remain separate relations.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W053,W054,W055,W056,W057,W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_SYSTEM::PARTITIONED_INDUS_HERITAGE
HOST: Pakistan, India, museums, excavators, sites and descendant publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ARCHIVAL+HERITAGE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ARCHIVAL+HERITAGE
CLAIM_STATUS: HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S069,INSA.S133,INSA.S134,INSA.S135
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G096,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000260 | 1947–1949 CE | FIRST INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR OVER JAMMU AND KASHMIR
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani forces, princely-state authorities and Kashmir populations
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_BORDER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Accession, invasion, intervention and ceasefire leave a divided territory; sovereignty, legal claim, control and lived identity must remain separate fields.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W053
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_BORDER_SYSTEM::FIRST_INDIA_PAKISTAN_WAR_OVER_JAMMU_AND_KASHMIR
HOST: Indian and Pakistani forces, princely-state authorities and Kashmir populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+MILITARY+TESTIMONIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+MILITARY+TESTIMONIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S099,INSA.S100
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G088,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000261 | 1947–1958 CE | PAKISTAN STATE CONSOLIDATION
ENTITY: Pakistan institutions, provinces, refugees and citizens
ENTITY_TYPE: STATE_SYSTEM
EVENT: A new state assembles ministries, currency, military and constitutional arrangements while absorbing displacement and negotiating unequal provincial power.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W053,W054
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z3_REGION
FUNCTION: STATE_SYSTEM::PAKISTAN_STATE_CONSOLIDATION
HOST: Pakistan institutions, provinces, refugees and citizens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S097,INSA.S101,INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000262 | 1956 CE | FIRST PAKISTAN CONSTITUTION
ENTITY: Pakistan legislature, executive and citizens
ENTITY_TYPE: CONSTITUTIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Pakistan becomes an Islamic republic under a parliamentary constitution, which is abrogated after the 1958 military coup.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W054
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CONSTITUTIONAL_SYSTEM::FIRST_PAKISTAN_CONSTITUTION
HOST: Pakistan legislature, executive and citizens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_5
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000263 | 1958 CE | MILITARY COUP AND CENTRALISATION
ENTITY: Pakistan military, presidency and political institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIME_TRANSITION
EVENT: Martial law displaces constitutional rule and centralises state capability, beginning a recurring military-civilian governance pattern.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W054
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: REGIME_TRANSITION::MILITARY_COUP_AND_CENTRALISATION
HOST: Pakistan military, presidency and political institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000264 | 19 September 1960 | INDUS WATERS TREATY
ENTITY: India, Pakistan and World Bank
ENTITY_TYPE: TREATY_SYSTEM
EVENT: A treaty allocates eastern and western river uses and creates a Permanent Indus Commission and dispute procedures; water, engineering and legal obligations remain distinct layers.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W055
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TREATY_SYSTEM::INDUS_WATERS_TREATY
HOST: India, Pakistan and World Bank; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC+HYDROLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC+HYDROLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S102,INSA.S117
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G089,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000265 | 1960s–1970s CE | INDUS BASIN REPLACEMENT WORKS
ENTITY: Dams, barrages, canals, engineers, displaced communities and rivers
ENTITY_TYPE: HYDRAULIC_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Mangla, link canals and later Tarbela reconfigure storage and transfers after treaty allocation, expanding irrigation and power while producing displacement, sediment and ecological debt.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W055,W056
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: HYDRAULIC_INFRASTRUCTURE::INDUS_BASIN_REPLACEMENT_WORKS
HOST: Dams, barrages, canals, engineers, displaced communities and rivers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ENGINEERING+ADMINISTRATIVE+ENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ENGINEERING+ADMINISTRATIVE+ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S102,INSA.S104
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G090
CA.INSA.000266 | 1960s–1980s CE | GREEN REVOLUTION IN PUNJAB AND SINDH
ENTITY: Farmers, labourers, seed-fertiliser systems, canals and groundwater
ENTITY_TYPE: FOOD_TECHNOLOGY_SYSTEM
EVENT: High-yield crops, irrigation, fertiliser and machinery raise output while increasing input dependence, land inequality, groundwater pressure and salinity in some hosts.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W055,W056,W057
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FOOD_TECHNOLOGY_SYSTEM::GREEN_REVOLUTION_IN_PUNJAB_AND_SINDH
HOST: Farmers, labourers, seed-fertiliser systems, canals and groundwater; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=AGRICULTURAL+ECONOMIC+ENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: AGRICULTURAL+ECONOMIC+ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S104
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G083,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000267 | 1965 CE | INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani armed forces and border populations
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Fighting across Kashmir, Punjab and other fronts ends in a ceasefire without resolving the core territorial dispute.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W055
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_SYSTEM::INDIA_PAKISTAN_WAR
HOST: Indian and Pakistani armed forces and border populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MILITARY+DIPLOMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: MILITARY+DIPLOMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S099,INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000268 | 1971 CE | WAR, BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN FISSION
ENTITY: Pakistan military and political authorities, Bengali resistance, India and civilians
ENTITY_TYPE: STATE_FISSION
EVENT: Civil war, mass violence, displacement and India-Pakistan war culminate in Bangladesh’s independence, exposing the failure of a geographically split state host.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W056
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: STATE_FISSION::WAR_BANGLADESH_AND_PAKISTAN_FISSION
HOST: Pakistan military and political authorities, Bengali resistance, India and civilians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MILITARY+DEMOGRAPHIC+LEGAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: MILITARY+DEMOGRAPHIC+LEGAL
CLAIM_STATUS: FISSION_RESIDUE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S100,INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000269 | 1973 CE | PAKISTAN CONSTITUTION
ENTITY: Parliament, federation, provinces and citizens
ENTITY_TYPE: CONSTITUTIONAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: A federal parliamentary constitution establishes the continuing legal frame, repeatedly amended, suspended and contested thereafter.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W056
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CONSTITUTIONAL_SYSTEM::PAKISTAN_CONSTITUTION
HOST: Parliament, federation, provinces and citizens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000270 | 1973–1977 CE | BALOCHISTAN INSURGENCY AND STATE RESPONSE
ENTITY: Baloch armed groups, Pakistan state and civilians
ENTITY_TYPE: INTERNAL_CONFLICT
EVENT: Provincial dismissal, insurgency and military operations intensify conflict over autonomy, resources and state coercion.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W056
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: INTERNAL_CONFLICT::BALOCHISTAN_INSURGENCY_AND_STATE_RESPONSE
HOST: Baloch armed groups, Pakistan state and civilians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=POLITICAL+MILITARY; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: POLITICAL+MILITARY
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095,INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G092,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000271 | 1977–1988 CE | ZIA REGIME AND ISLAMISATION
ENTITY: Pakistan military government, courts, religious institutions and citizens
ENTITY_TYPE: REGIME_SYSTEM
EVENT: Coup, martial law and legal-religious programmes reshape state authority, gendered rights, education and jihad-era institutions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W056,W057
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: REGIME_SYSTEM::ZIA_REGIME_AND_ISLAMISATION
HOST: Pakistan military government, courts, religious institutions and citizens; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000272 | 1979–1989 CE | SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR INTERFACE
ENTITY: Afghan refugees, mujahideen networks, Pakistan, United States and regional communities
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_MIGRATION_SYSTEM
EVENT: War sends millions of refugees and large arms, finance and militant-training flows into Pakistan’s northwest, producing durable security and social residues.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W056,W057
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_MIGRATION_SYSTEM::SOVIET_AFGHAN_WAR_INTERFACE
HOST: Afghan refugees, mujahideen networks, Pakistan, United States and regional communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PERSON_MOVEMENT
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=DEMOGRAPHIC+MILITARY+POLITICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG5_CORRIDOR_NETWORK
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PERSON_MOVEMENT
EVIDENCE: DEMOGRAPHIC+MILITARY+POLITICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G098,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000273 | 1988 onward | CIVILIAN-MILITARY HYBRID GOVERNANCE
ENTITY: Elected institutions, military, courts and political parties
ENTITY_TYPE: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM
EVENT: Elections and constitutional rule recur alongside military coups, dismissals and unelected veto power; formal office and effective control are separate variables.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W057,W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_SYSTEM::CIVILIAN_MILITARY_HYBRID_GOVERNANCE
HOST: Elected institutions, military, courts and political parties; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+POLITICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+POLITICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103,INSA.S110,INSA.S111
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G100
CA.INSA.000274 | 1990s onward | INDUS DELTA WATER AND SALINITY PRESSURE
ENTITY: Delta communities, mangroves, fisheries, irrigation users and sea
ENTITY_TYPE: ECOLOGICAL_PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Reduced freshwater and sediment, extraction and sea-level effects increase salinity and livelihood risk; upstream benefit and downstream receipt are coupled.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W058,W059,W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECOLOGICAL_PRESSURE_FIELD::INDUS_DELTA_WATER_AND_SALINITY_PRESSURE
HOST: Delta communities, mangroves, fisheries, irrigation users and sea; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ENVIRONMENTAL+HYDROLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ENVIRONMENTAL+HYDROLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S104,INSA.S105,INSA.S130,INSA.S131
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G010,INSA.G091
CA.INSA.000275 | May 1998 | INDIA AND PAKISTAN NUCLEAR TESTS
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani states, armed forces and affected environments
ENTITY_TYPE: NUCLEAR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Tests make overt nuclear deterrence a central regional capability while creating environmental, fiscal and escalation liabilities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W058
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: NUCLEAR_SYSTEM::INDIA_AND_PAKISTAN_NUCLEAR_TESTS
HOST: Indian and Pakistani states, armed forces and affected environments; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: ENERGY_CONVERSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=STATE+MILITARY+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: ENERGY_CONVERSION
EVIDENCE: STATE+MILITARY+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000276 | 1999 CE | KARGIL CONFLICT
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani forces and mountain communities
ENTITY_TYPE: MILITARY_EVENT
EVENT: Fighting across the Line of Control demonstrates nuclear-era escalation risk and terrain-dependent military reach.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W058
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: MILITARY_EVENT::KARGIL_CONFLICT
HOST: Indian and Pakistani forces and mountain communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MILITARY+DIPLOMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: MILITARY+DIPLOMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G092,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000277 | 2001–2014 CE | WAR-ON-TERROR NORTHWEST SYSTEM
ENTITY: Pakistan, United States, Afghanistan, militant groups and civilians
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_SYSTEM
EVENT: Alliance, drone strikes, insurgency, counterinsurgency and displacement transform the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands and civil-military institutions.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W059,W060
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_SYSTEM::WAR_ON_TERROR_NORTHWEST_SYSTEM
HOST: Pakistan, United States, Afghanistan, militant groups and civilians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=MILITARY+POLITICAL+DEMOGRAPHIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: MILITARY+POLITICAL+DEMOGRAPHIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000278 | 8 October 2005 | KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE
ENTITY: Mountain communities, infrastructure and relief systems
ENTITY_TYPE: DISASTER_EVENT
EVENT: A major earthquake kills and displaces people across divided Kashmir, revealing building, access and coordination vulnerabilities across political boundaries.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W059
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DISASTER_EVENT::KASHMIR_EARTHQUAKE
HOST: Mountain communities, infrastructure and relief systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=SEISMOLOGICAL+HUMANITARIAN; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: SEISMOLOGICAL+HUMANITARIAN
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G088,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000279 | 2013 onward | CHINA-PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR
ENTITY: Chinese and Pakistani states, firms, workers and affected communities
ENTITY_TYPE: INFRASTRUCTURE_PROGRAM
EVENT: Energy, road, port and industrial projects extend state and capital flows through Pakistan; announced corridors, financed projects and operating assets remain separate statuses.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W060,W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: INFRASTRUCTURE_PROGRAM::CHINA_PAKISTAN_ECONOMIC_CORRIDOR
HOST: Chinese and Pakistani states, firms, workers and affected communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC+ENGINEERING; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ECONOMIC+ENGINEERING
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN_AND_PARTIAL_OPERATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S104
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000280 | 2015 onward | GWADAR PORT AND BALOCHISTAN PRESSURES
ENTITY: Port authorities, fishers, residents, firms, security forces and armed groups
ENTITY_TYPE: PORT_SECURITY_SYSTEM
EVENT: Port development expands strategic and logistics ambition while water, livelihood, representation and security conflict condition local legitimacy and operation.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PORT_SECURITY_SYSTEM::GWADAR_PORT_AND_BALOCHISTAN_PRESSURES
HOST: Port authorities, fishers, residents, firms, security forces and armed groups; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+POLITICAL+ENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG3_NODE_AND_HINTERLAND
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+POLITICAL+ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S095,INSA.S104,INSA.S113
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G092,INSA.G094
CA.INSA.000281 | 2018 onward | DIGITAL PAYMENTS AND IDENTITY INFRASTRUCTURE
ENTITY: Citizens, banks, telecoms, platforms and state databases
ENTITY_TYPE: DIGITAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: Mobile connectivity, identity and payment rails widen service reach while outages, exclusion, surveillance and foreign-stack dependence remain active constraints.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W061,W062,W063,W064,W065,W066,W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DIGITAL_SYSTEM::DIGITAL_PAYMENTS_AND_IDENTITY_INFRASTRUCTURE
HOST: Citizens, banks, telecoms, platforms and state databases; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL+ECONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL+ECONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S103,INSA.S124,INSA.S125
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000282 | August 2019 | JAMMU AND KASHMIR CONSTITUTIONAL REORGANISATION
ENTITY: India, Jammu and Kashmir institutions and residents
ENTITY_TYPE: LEGAL_TERRITORIAL_TRANSITION
EVENT: India revokes the former state’s special constitutional status and reorganises it into union territories amid detention and communications restrictions; competing claims persist.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W061
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME4_MODERN
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: LEGAL_TERRITORIAL_TRANSITION::JAMMU_AND_KASHMIR_CONSTITUTIONAL_REORGANISATION
HOST: India, Jammu and Kashmir institutions and residents; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+POLITICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+POLITICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S114,INSA.S115
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G088
CA.INSA.000283 | 2020 CE | COVID-19 PANDEMIC ACROSS NORTHWEST SOUTH ASIA
ENTITY: Residents, health systems, workers and states
ENTITY_TYPE: PANDEMIC_SYSTEM
EVENT: Infection, lockdowns and economic shocks stress health, migration, schooling and informal work while accelerating some digital services.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W062
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: PANDEMIC_SYSTEM::COVID_19_PANDEMIC_ACROSS_NORTHWEST_SOUTH_ASIA
HOST: Residents, health systems, workers and states; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=EPIDEMIOLOGICAL+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S130,INSA.S140
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G082,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000284 | 2021 CE | DHOLAVIRA INSCRIBED ON WORLD HERITAGE LIST
ENTITY: Dholavira, India, UNESCO and affected heritage publics
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_EVENT
EVENT: World Heritage inscription changes international recognition and conservation obligations; it does not transfer ownership or settle community authority.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W063
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_EVENT::DHOLAVIRA_INSCRIBED_ON_WORLD_HERITAGE_LIST
HOST: Dholavira, India, UNESCO and affected heritage publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+HERITAGE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+HERITAGE
CLAIM_STATUS: HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S038
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G095,INSA.G096
CA.INSA.000285 | June–October 2022 | PAKISTAN MEGAFLOODS
ENTITY: People, settlements, farms, infrastructure and river-climate systems
ENTITY_TYPE: DISASTER_SYSTEM
EVENT: Exceptional monsoon and flood conditions affect about thirty-three million people, displace millions and expose development, poverty and climate vulnerabilities.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W064
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DISASTER_SYSTEM::PAKISTAN_MEGAFLOODS
HOST: People, settlements, farms, infrastructure and river-climate systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=HUMANITARIAN+METEOROLOGICAL+ECONOMIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: HUMANITARIAN+METEOROLOGICAL+ECONOMIC
CLAIM_STATUS: ACTIVE_SUBSTRATE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S106,INSA.S107,INSA.S108,INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000286 | 2022 CE | MOHENJO-DARO FLOOD DAMAGE AND EMERGENCY CONSERVATION
ENTITY: Mohenjo-daro fabric, conservators, state and nearby communities
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_PRESSURE
EVENT: Heavy rain damages exposed archaeology and amplifies drainage and maintenance needs; ancient flood adaptation does not make excavated remains self-protecting.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W064
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_PRESSURE::MOHENJO_DARO_FLOOD_DAMAGE_AND_EMERGENCY_CONSERVATION
HOST: Mohenjo-daro fabric, conservators, state and nearby communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=HERITAGE+ENVIRONMENTAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: HERITAGE+ENVIRONMENTAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S040,INSA.S106,INSA.S133
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000287 | 2022–2023 CE | FLOOD RECOVERY AND DEBT PRESSURE
ENTITY: Pakistan households, governments, creditors and infrastructure
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_PRESSURE_FIELD
EVENT: Reconstruction needs collide with inflation, foreign-exchange scarcity and debt constraints, leaving uneven recovery and deferred maintenance.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W064,W065
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_PRESSURE_FIELD::FLOOD_RECOVERY_AND_DEBT_PRESSURE
HOST: Pakistan households, governments, creditors and infrastructure; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: PRESSURE
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S106,INSA.S112
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G091,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000288 | 2023 CE | IMF STABILISATION AND AUSTERITY TRADE-OFF
ENTITY: Pakistan, IMF, taxpayers and service users
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_GOVERNANCE
EVENT: Emergency financing averts immediate external-payment failure while tariff, tax and spending adjustments redistribute costs and do not themselves guarantee structural repair.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W065
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_GOVERNANCE::IMF_STABILISATION_AND_AUSTERITY_TRADE_OFF
HOST: Pakistan, IMF, taxpayers and service users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR3_REGIONAL
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR3_RELAY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OUROBOROS_TEST
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S112
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000289 | 8 February 2024 | PAKISTAN GENERAL ELECTION
ENTITY: Voters, parties, candidates, Election Commission and institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: POLITICAL_EVENT
EVENT: A contested election produces a hung parliament with independent candidates linked to PTI winning the largest bloc; formal results, fairness claims and coalition power remain separable.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: POLITICAL_EVENT::PAKISTAN_GENERAL_ELECTION
HOST: Voters, parties, candidates, Election Commission and institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ELECTORAL+LEGAL+JOURNALISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: ELECTORAL+LEGAL+JOURNALISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S110
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000290 | 3 March 2024 | SHEHBAZ SHARIF COALITION GOVERNMENT FORMS
ENTITY: National Assembly, PML-N, PPP and coalition partners
ENTITY_TYPE: GOVERNANCE_EVENT
EVENT: Parliament elects Shehbaz Sharif prime minister for a second term through a coalition after the hung election.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: GOVERNANCE_EVENT::SHEHBAZ_SHARIF_COALITION_GOVERNMENT_FORMS
HOST: National Assembly, PML-N, PPP and coalition partners; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+JOURNALISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_6
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+JOURNALISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S111
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G066
CA.INSA.000291 | 15 March 2024 | MOHENJO-DARO CONSERVATION MISSION
ENTITY: UNESCO, ICOMOS, Pakistan authorities and site custodians
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_EVENT
EVENT: A technical mission reviews conservation, drainage, tourism and management risks, making present custody work an explicit historical event.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_EVENT::MOHENJO_DARO_CONSERVATION_MISSION
HOST: UNESCO, ICOMOS, Pakistan authorities and site custodians; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=HERITAGE+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: HERITAGE+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S109
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G029,INSA.G095
CA.INSA.000292 | 2024 CE | INDIAAI MISSION OPERATING FRAME
ENTITY: IndiaAI Mission, compute providers, researchers, firms and publics
ENTITY_TYPE: AI_INFRASTRUCTURE_PROGRAM
EVENT: Public pillars for compute, datasets, models, skills, startups and safety establish funded capability goals; procurement and announcements are not completed national capability.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: AI_INFRASTRUCTURE_PROGRAM::INDIAAI_MISSION_OPERATING_FRAME
HOST: IndiaAI Mission, compute providers, researchers, firms and publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN_AND_PARTIAL_OPERATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S121,INSA.S122
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G099
CA.INSA.000293 | 25 September 2024 | PAKISTAN EXTENDED FUND FACILITY APPROVED
ENTITY: Pakistan and IMF
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_AGREEMENT
EVENT: A thirty-seven-month programme supplies external financing under reform conditions; approval is distinct from later review completion and lived outcomes.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W066
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_AGREEMENT::PAKISTAN_EXTENDED_FUND_FACILITY_APPROVED
HOST: Pakistan and IMF; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+LEGAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+LEGAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S112
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000294 | 14 March 2025 | JAFFAR EXPRESS HIJACKING AFTERMATH
ENTITY: Passengers, Baloch Liberation Army, Pakistan forces and families
ENTITY_TYPE: SECURITY_EVENT
EVENT: A train hijacking and military response kill hostages, attackers and security personnel, intensifying the Balochistan conflict; casualty claims require source attribution.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: SECURITY_EVENT::JAFFAR_EXPRESS_HIJACKING_AFTERMATH
HOST: Passengers, Baloch Liberation Army, Pakistan forces and families; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S113
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000295 | 2025 CE | KACHCHH SHELL-RESEARCH PUBLICATION
ENTITY: Ancient shell deposits, researchers and Kachchh communities
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: New reporting foregrounds coastal hunter-gatherer and shell-working evidence that precedes Harappan urbanism; publication is not the date of the ancient activity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::KACHCHH_SHELL_RESEARCH_PUBLICATION
HOST: Ancient shell deposits, researchers and Kachchh communities; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: MATERIAL_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S029
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G012
CA.INSA.000296 | 2025 CE | HARAPPA LABOUR-TAPHONOMY PUBLICATION
ENTITY: Ancient animal remains, labour history and researchers
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: A new analysis strengthens recovery of processing and maintenance labour otherwise hidden behind artefact and city-centred narratives.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::HARAPPA_LABOUR_TAPHONOMY_PUBLICATION
HOST: Ancient animal remains, labour history and researchers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: NOBODY_LENS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S047
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G028,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000297 | 2025 CE | HARAPPAN RIVER-DROUGHT PUBLICATION
ENTITY: Palaeoclimate proxies, settlement data and researchers
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: A new model identifies repeated persistent drought intervals and tests adaptation, while explicitly avoiding a one-cause fall narrative.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::HARAPPAN_RIVER_DROUGHT_PUBLICATION
HOST: Palaeoclimate proxies, settlement data and researchers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=PALEOCLIMATE+SCIENTIFIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: PALEOCLIMATE+SCIENTIFIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S045
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G044,INSA.G050
CA.INSA.000298 | 2025 CE | KASHMIR ANCIENT-MITOGENOME PUBLICATION
ENTITY: Ancient individuals, researchers and descendant publics
ENTITY_TYPE: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
EVENT: Mitochondrial results add maternal-lineage evidence across several periods, subject to sample, preservation, consent and ancestry-identity limits.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: EVIDENCE_HISTORY::KASHMIR_ANCIENT_MITOGENOME_PUBLICATION
HOST: Ancient individuals, researchers and descendant publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=GENETIC+SCIENTIFIC+ETHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: GENETIC+SCIENTIFIC+ETHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S064
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G055,INSA.G088
CA.INSA.000299 | 22 April 2025 | PAHALGAM ATTACK
ENTITY: Tourists, attackers, local communities and states
ENTITY_TYPE: SECURITY_EVENT
EVENT: Gunmen kill civilians near Pahalgam, triggering India-Pakistan escalation; attribution, criminal responsibility and state responsibility require evidence-specific treatment.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: SECURITY_EVENT::PAHALGAM_ATTACK
HOST: Tourists, attackers, local communities and states; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S114
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G056
CA.INSA.000300 | 23–24 April 2025 | INDIA HOLDS INDUS WATERS TREATY IN ABEYANCE
ENTITY: Government of India, Pakistan and treaty institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: TREATY_CRISIS
EVENT: India announces that treaty participation is held in abeyance after the attack; Pakistan disputes the measure, and announcement does not erase the treaty text or settle legality.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: TREATY_CRISIS::INDIA_HOLDS_INDUS_WATERS_TREATY_IN_ABEYANCE
HOST: Government of India, Pakistan and treaty institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC+JOURNALISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC+JOURNALISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: LEGAL_STATUS_CONTESTED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S114,INSA.S115,INSA.S117
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G089,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000301 | April–May 2025 | INDIA-PAKISTAN MILITARY ESCALATION
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani armed forces and border populations
ENTITY_TYPE: WAR_CRISIS
EVENT: Strikes, drones, missiles and shelling sharply escalate conflict before a ceasefire understanding; official claims and independently verified damage remain separate.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: WAR_CRISIS::INDIA_PAKISTAN_MILITARY_ESCALATION
HOST: Indian and Pakistani armed forces and border populations; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S114,INSA.S115
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000302 | 10 May 2025 | CEASEFIRE UNDERSTANDING
ENTITY: India and Pakistan military and diplomatic channels
ENTITY_TYPE: DIPLOMATIC_EVENT
EVENT: A halt in major fighting is announced while the Indus Waters Treaty dispute remains open; ceasefire is not a peace settlement.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DIPLOMATIC_EVENT::CEASEFIRE_UNDERSTANDING
HOST: India and Pakistan military and diplomatic channels; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+OFFICIAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S115
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000303 | May 2025 onward | INDUS WATER-PROJECT ACCELERATION CLAIMS
ENTITY: Indian and Pakistani authorities, engineers and river users
ENTITY_TYPE: HYDRO_POLITICAL_SYSTEM
EVENT: India considers faster storage and diversion works after holding the treaty in abeyance; plans, permits, construction and operating withdrawals are tracked as different states.
TEMPORAL_FORM: OPEN_INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HYDRO_POLITICAL_SYSTEM::INDUS_WATER_PROJECT_ACCELERATION_CLAIMS
HOST: Indian and Pakistani authorities, engineers and river users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+LEGAL+ENGINEERING; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+LEGAL+ENGINEERING
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S116,INSA.S117,INSA.S132
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G003,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000304 | 2025–2026 CE | COURT OF ARBITRATION CONTINUES
ENTITY: Indus Waters Court of Arbitration, India, Pakistan and treaty institutions
ENTITY_TYPE: LEGAL_PROCESS
EVENT: The court issues decisions despite India’s non-participation and treaty crisis; jurisdictional positions, awards and physical water operation remain separate.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INTERVAL
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: BOUNDED
WORLD_BANDS: W067,W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME5_RECENT
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: LEGAL_PROCESS::COURT_OF_ARBITRATION_CONTINUES
HOST: Indus Waters Court of Arbitration, India, Pakistan and treaty institutions; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: FORMATION_TO_REPRODUCTION
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+DIPLOMATIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OPEN_PROCESS
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S117,INSA.S118
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G089,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000305 | 1 February 2026 | ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESTINATION BUDGET PROPOSAL
ENTITY: Government of India, Lothal, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi and other sites
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_PROGRAM
EVENT: A budget proposal identifies archaeological destinations for development; proposed funding is not completed conservation, access reform or community benefit.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_PROGRAM::ARCHAEOLOGICAL_DESTINATION_BUDGET_PROPOSAL
HOST: Government of India, Lothal, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi and other sites; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+HERITAGE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+HERITAGE
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S120
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G096,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000306 | 9 February 2026 | ISLAMABAD AI DECLARATION
ENTITY: Pakistan Digital Authority, government, industry and researchers
ENTITY_TYPE: AI_POLICY_EVENT
EVENT: A national forum states sovereign and ethical AI ambitions; declaration is a policy signal, not proof of domestic model, compute or deployment maturity.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: AI_POLICY_EVENT::ISLAMABAD_AI_DECLARATION
HOST: Pakistan Digital Authority, government, industry and researchers; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S124,INSA.S125
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G091,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000307 | 26 February 2026 | PAKISTAN ETHICAL-AI GOVERNANCE FORUM
ENTITY: UNESCO, Pakistan institutions and participating publics
ENTITY_TYPE: AI_GOVERNANCE_EVENT
EVENT: A forum advances ethical AI and data-governance frameworks while implementation authority, enforcement and redress remain to be demonstrated.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: AI_GOVERNANCE_EVENT::PAKISTAN_ETHICAL_AI_GOVERNANCE_FORUM
HOST: UNESCO, Pakistan institutions and participating publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+ETHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+ETHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S125
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G098,INSA.G100
CA.INSA.000308 | 13 March 2026 | INDIAAI COMPUTE AND MODEL STATUS
ENTITY: IndiaAI Mission, compute providers and model teams
ENTITY_TYPE: AI_INFRASTRUCTURE
EVENT: Official reporting describes compute capacity and selected model efforts; allocated compute, trained models, evaluated systems and public operation remain separate lifecycle states.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z5_SITE
FUNCTION: AI_INFRASTRUCTURE::INDIAAI_COMPUTE_AND_MODEL_STATUS
HOST: IndiaAI Mission, compute providers and model teams; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: CRUISE_OR_STRESS
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ADMINISTRATIVE+TECHNICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: PARTIAL_OPERATION
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S121,INSA.S122
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G099
CA.INSA.000309 | 8 May 2026 | IMF THIRD EFF REVIEW COMPLETED
ENTITY: Pakistan and IMF
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_EVENT
EVENT: The IMF completes a programme review and releases financing after assessing conditions; board action does not demonstrate equal household recovery.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_EVENT::IMF_THIRD_EFF_REVIEW_COMPLETED
HOST: Pakistan and IMF; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+ADMINISTRATIVE
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED_OR_SYNTHESISED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S126
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000310 | 12 June 2026 | PAKISTAN FY2026-27 BUDGET
ENTITY: Pakistan government, defence institutions, taxpayers and service users
ENTITY_TYPE: FISCAL_EVENT
EVENT: The budget raises defence allocation while constraining development spending under stabilisation pressures; appropriations and realised spending remain distinct.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FISCAL_EVENT::PAKISTAN_FY2026_27_BUDGET
HOST: Pakistan government, defence institutions, taxpayers and service users; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=LEGAL+ECONOMIC+JOURNALISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: LEGAL+ECONOMIC+JOURNALISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S127
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000311 | 22 June 2026 | RAKHIGARHI REMAINS TRANSFERRED FOR RESEARCH
ENTITY: Human skeletal remains, Anthropological Survey of India, excavators and descendant publics
ENTITY_TYPE: HERITAGE_CUSTODY_EVENT
EVENT: Ancient remains are transferred to a research institution for advanced study; custody, consent, research authority, data access and identity claims remain distinct.
TEMPORAL_FORM: EVIDENCE_HISTORY
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: HERITAGE_CUSTODY_EVENT::RAKHIGARHI_REMAINS_TRANSFERRED_FOR_RESEARCH
HOST: Human skeletal remains, Anthropological Survey of India, excavators and descendant publics; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=OFFICIAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ETHICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG6_PROTOCOL_AND_CUSTODY
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: EVIDENCE_UPDATE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REINTERPRETED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD1_LOCAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC4_HOST_DEPENDENT
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL+BIOANTHROPOLOGICAL+ETHICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: HERITAGE_RIGHTS_STACK
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S119,INSA.S134
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G097
CA.INSA.000312 | 22 July 2026 | S&P RAISES PAKISTAN SOVEREIGN RATING
ENTITY: Pakistan, creditors and rating agency
ENTITY_TYPE: ECONOMIC_EVENT
EVENT: A rating upgrade reflects assessed reform and reserve improvement; it is an external credit opinion, not a complete measure of welfare or fiscal resilience.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: ECONOMIC_EVENT::S_P_RAISES_PAKISTAN_SOVEREIGN_RATING
HOST: Pakistan, creditors and rating agency; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=ECONOMIC+JOURNALISTIC; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: ECONOMIC+JOURNALISTIC
CLAIM_STATUS: QUALIFIED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S128
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G086,INSA.G098
CA.INSA.000313 | 23 July 2026 | REGIONAL MONSOON FLOODING
ENTITY: Communities in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and monsoon systems
ENTITY_TYPE: DISASTER_EVENT
EVENT: Heavy rain and flooding cause deaths and disruption across connected watersheds near the cutoff, with totals subject to continuing revision.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: DISASTER_EVENT::REGIONAL_MONSOON_FLOODING
HOST: Communities in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan and monsoon systems; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=JOURNALISTIC+METEOROLOGICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG0_NOT_APPLICABLE
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: NOT_APPLICABLE
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR5_PLANETARY
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR7_PLANETARY
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD4_WORLD
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_AUTONOMY_NOT_APPLICABLE
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: JOURNALISTIC+METEOROLOGICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_AT_CUTOFF
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A/B; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S129,INSA.S130
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G098,INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000314 | 29 July 2026, observed by 17:33:38 +08 | INDIAAI SOVEREIGN-MODEL PROPOSAL STATUS
ENTITY: IndiaAI Mission and selected model teams
ENTITY_TYPE: AI_POLICY_EVENT
EVENT: Official reporting identifies twenty sovereign-model proposals and Safe and Trusted AI work; selection is not completion, validation or production deployment.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: AI_POLICY_EVENT::INDIAAI_SOVEREIGN_MODEL_PROPOSAL_STATUS
HOST: IndiaAI Mission and selected model teams; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=OFFICIAL+TECHNICAL; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_8
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: INFORMATION_TRANSFER
EVIDENCE: OFFICIAL+TECHNICAL
CLAIM_STATUS: OFFICIAL_PLAN
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S123,INSA.S140
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G087,INSA.G099
CA.INSA.000315 | 29 July 2026, 17:33:38 +08 | REGIONAL LIVE CUTOFF
ENTITY: Civilisation Atlas Coverage Object 20
ENTITY_TYPE: CONTROL_TOWER_EVENT
EVENT: The regional child clock freezes observed evidence at this instant; later reports, corrections and outcomes are future at cutoff and require a new release.
TEMPORAL_FORM: INSTANT
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: CONTROL_TOWER_EVENT::REGIONAL_LIVE_CUTOFF
HOST: Civilisation Atlas Coverage Object 20; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: material, biological, informational and/or human carriers named in record
FLOW: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=SYSTEM+PROVENANCE; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG4_MIXED_AND_UNRESOLVED
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: STATE_CHANGE
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL2_REPRODUCING
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR2_NODE
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR2_LOCAL_HOST
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD2_REGIONAL
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC3_COMPLEX
MOTION: PROCESS_SUCCESSION
EVIDENCE: SYSTEM+PROVENANCE
CLAIM_STATUS: LIVE_CUTOFF
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S002,INSA.S003,INSA.S004,INSA.S140
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G101
CA.INSA.000316 | after 29 July 2026, 17:33:38 +08 | POST-CUTOFF EVENTS
ENTITY: Unobserved future regional states
ENTITY_TYPE: FUTURE_STATE
EVENT: No election result, treaty settlement, completed dam, AI deployment, heritage destination or other outcome after the cutoff is asserted as history.
TEMPORAL_FORM: FUTURE_AT_CUTOFF
BOUNDARY_CERTAINTY: EXACT
WORLD_BANDS: W068
TIME_ZOOM: ZTIME6_LIVE
ENTITY_ZOOM: Z4_SYSTEM
FUNCTION: FUTURE_STATE::POST_CUTOFF_EVENTS
HOST: Unobserved future regional states; active material, geographic, water, sky, biosphere and institutional substrates as applicable
CARRIER: human agents and institutions
FLOW: AGENT_FLUX
DEPENDENCY: host continuity; energy and maintenance; social reproduction; evidence-specific enabling conditions
LINEAGE: local and interregional predecessors/successors; no single inheritance chain assumed
RELATION: relation_type=TEMPORAL_AND_FUNCTIONAL; attestation=SYSTEM; relation and attestation remain separate
CONTROL_GEOMETRY: CG7_NESTED_TERRITORIAL
BASEFLOOR_EFFECT: matter=tracked; energy=tracked; water=tracked; ecology=tracked; labour=tracked; information=tracked; legitimacy=tracked
CAPABILITY: STAGE_7
LIFECYCLE: NOT_YET_BEGUN
MODULE_REPRODUCTION_LIFECYCLE: MRL0_UNOBSERVED
CAPABILITY_REACH: CR0_UNOBSERVED
SURVIVABLE_RANGE: SR0_UNTESTED
WORLD_DISTRIBUTION: WD0_NONE
DEPENDENCY_CLOSURE: DC0_UNKNOWN
MOTION: AGENT_FLUX
EVIDENCE: SYSTEM
CLAIM_STATUS: NOT_YET_OBSERVED
UNCERTAINTY: Confidence A; boundaries and interpretation remain evidence-scoped.
SOURCE_KEYS: INSA.S003,INSA.S004,INSA.S140
GRAPH_SEEDS: INSA.G101

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08 | WORLD-MASTER CROSS-SECTIONS

INSA.X001 | W016 | c. 7000 BCE | Mehrgarh village capability emerges while forager, fisher and pastoral knowledge remains active across other hosts.
INSA.X002 | W019 | c. 4000 BCE | Mehrgarh, Amri, Nal, Kulli, Rehman Dheri and coastal systems coexist; none is the single Indus origin.
INSA.X003 | W021 | c. 2600 BCE | Multiple Early Harappan trajectories converge into mature interoperability across city, village, craft and route hosts.
INSA.X004 | W022 | c. 2300 BCE | Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Dholavira, Rakhigarhi and other centres coexist with Meluhha-Dilmun-Magan and Oxus interfaces.
INSA.X005 | W023 | c. 1900 BCE | Mature standards unbundle as regional Late Harappan systems, crop adaptations and settlement shifts proceed asynchronously.
INSA.X006 | W024 | c. 1500 BCE | Cemetery H, Jhukar, Rangpur-Sorath, Swat and Kashmir trajectories overlap with new ancestry and oral-language histories.
INSA.X007 | W028 | c. 520 BCE | Gandara and Hindush interface with Achaemenid rule while local settlement, language and religious systems remain plural.
INSA.X008 | W029 | 326 BCE | Macedonian campaigning intersects Taxila, Punjab polities, river logistics and local resistance without durable uniform control.
INSA.X009 | W030 | c. 250 BCE | Mauryan administration, Ashokan Kharosthi edicts and Buddhist institutional growth create new communication layers.
INSA.X010 | W032 | c. 150 CE | Kushan integration links Purushapura, Taxila, monasteries, mints, art workshops and Central-Asian routes.
INSA.X011 | W035 | c. 712 CE | Sindh conquest, Shahi frontiers and persistent Buddhist, Hindu and local institutions occupy different control geometries.
INSA.X012 | W037 | c. 1050 CE | Ghaznavid military-fiscal power, Lahore, Multan, Sufi and merchant networks reproduce through different hosts.
INSA.X013 | W041 | c. 1550 CE | Mughal, Sindhi, Kalat, Sikh-forming and route systems overlap without one regional lifecycle.
INSA.X014 | W044 | c. 1799 CE | Sikh, Durrani, Talpur, Kalat and colonial-company pressures define simultaneous sovereignties and interfaces.
INSA.X015 | W045 | 1849 CE | Punjab annexation joins Sindh conquest to a new colonial infrastructure and knowledge runtime.
INSA.X016 | W050 | 1924 CE | anti-colonial politics, canal-colony society and the public recognition of the Indus civilisation coexist.
INSA.X017 | W053 | 1947 CE | state fission, mass displacement, Kashmir war and partitioned heritage create distinct legal and lived histories.
INSA.X018 | W055 | 1960 CE | treaty law, hydraulic engineering, sovereign rivalry, ecology and farmer access become one coupled but non-identical system.
INSA.X019 | W064 | 2022 CE | flood, debt, displacement, river engineering and Mohenjo-daro conservation reveal shared BaseFloor stress.
INSA.X020 | W067 | 2025 CE | archaeological and genetic evidence updates coincide with war crisis, treaty rupture claims and Balochistan violence.
INSA.X021 | W068 | 29 July 2026 | observed climate, fiscal, heritage and AI states are frozen; plans and post-cutoff outcomes remain future.

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09 | EXECUTED CIVILISATION CAT SCANS

CAT DIMENSIONS DEFINED: time, entity, relation, flow, dependency, host,
control, evidence, pressure, lineage, repair and counterfactual.
SCAN EXECUTED means the dimensions are applied below, not merely listed.

INSA.CAT.01 | Mehrgarh 7000–5000 BCE | mode=longitudinal
QUESTION: How does durable village capability arise?
FINDING: mixed food economy, mud-brick, storage, craft and care co-produce settlement
DEPENDENCIES: seed, herd, water, labour, ecological knowledge
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: risk is origin compression into imported farming or one founder
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.02 | Early Harappan 4000–2600 BCE | mode=cross-sectional
QUESTION: Which local systems converge without becoming identical?
FINDING: several village, town, coast and highland trajectories share selected protocols
DEPENDENCIES: routes, craft learning, surplus, trust and seasonal hosts
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: risk is teleology toward one inevitable civilisation
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.03 | Mature Harappan 2600–1900 BCE | mode=system
QUESTION: How is large-scale integration reproduced without known kings?
FINDING: standards, cities, rural systems, information objects and exchange remain polycentric
DEPENDENCIES: maintenance labour, water, food, measurement and legitimacy
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: political form stays unknown
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.04 | Mohenjo-daro c. 2300 BCE | mode=Nobody
QUESTION: Who keeps the city operating?
FINDING: wells, drains, platforms and households require repetitive anonymous work
DEPENDENCIES: cleaners, builders, water carriers, food processors and receiving ecologies
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: archive hides names, consent and coercion
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.05 | Indus sign system | mode=evidence
QUESTION: What is known without decipherment?
FINDING: patterned short inscriptions and object contexts support information use
DEPENDENCIES: trained sign makers, durable media and interpretive communities
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: no bilingual or consensus language
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.06 | Harappan western trade | mode=flow
QUESTION: Where do goods and functions change hosts?
FINDING: Meluhha, Dilmun, Magan and inland relays move materials and information
DEPENDENCIES: boats, interpreters, credit, ports and political access
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: reachable does not equal directly interacted
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.07 | 2200–1300 BCE transformation | mode=pressure
QUESTION: What fails, adapts or migrates?
FINDING: climate, river, trade and maintenance pressures coincide with asynchronous localisation
DEPENDENCIES: crops, households, water and residual protocols
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: no single drought or invasion switch
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.08 | Rakhigarhi genome | mode=evidence-ethics
QUESTION: What can one ancient genome establish?
FINDING: one ancestry profile constrains some models but not language or civilisation identity
DEPENDENCIES: preservation, custody, sampling and statistical comparison
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: population representation is limited
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.09 | Gandhara 600 BCE–400 CE | mode=interface
QUESTION: How do imperial and religious capabilities change hosts?
FINDING: Achaemenid, Mauryan, Hellenistic, Saka, Parthian and Kushan forms overlap
DEPENDENCIES: scripts, mints, routes, cities, monasteries and translators
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: fusion label can erase provenance
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.10 | Punjab-Sindh 1843–1947 | mode=coercion
QUESTION: How does colonial capability reproduce?
FINDING: conquest, revenue, canal, rail, census, military and archaeology reinforce control
DEPENDENCIES: land, water, labour, categories and archives
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: infrastructure benefit and coercive receipt diverge
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.11 | Partition and Indus systems 1947–1973 | mode=fission
QUESTION: What survives state fission and what does not?
FINDING: people, canals, archives, heritage and river dependencies cross new sovereignty lines
DEPENDENCIES: refugee institutions, treaty, infrastructure and memory
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: legal succession differs from lived continuity
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.
INSA.CAT.12 | Indus system at cutoff | mode=repair
QUESTION: Which coupled failures need authorised repair?
FINDING: climate, debt, security, treaty, heritage and digital dependency interact
DEPENDENCIES: consent, maintenance finance, data, water and accountable institutions
FAILURE_OR_BIAS_RISK: official plans are not repair completion
REVERSE_VALIDATION: trace substrate receipt, affected agents, evidence
damage, consent and repair authority before closing diagnosis.

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10 | GENOME, PHENOTYPE, PRESSURE AND OUROBOROS

GENOME DEFINITION:
Reproducible civilisational modules: ecological knowledge; food systems;
water management; measurement; craft training; information protocols;
transport; fiscal extraction; legitimacy; care; defence; memory; repair.

PHENOTYPE RULE:
A module’s observed expression is host-conditioned. Harappan brick,
Achaemenid-Aramaic/Kharosthi, Gandharan art, canal-colony irrigation and
modern AI are phenotypes, not proof of one continuous genome.

PRESSURE FIELD:
climate variability; river motion; resource limits; trade contraction;
maintenance cost; coercion; warfare; epidemic; debt; archive damage;
legitimacy loss; dependency concentration; ecological feedback.
Pressure changes probability and cost; it does not mechanically cause
one outcome.

OUROBOROS TESTS:
O1 Harappan standardisation reduces transaction cost but raises
coordination and reproduction dependence.
O2 urban drainage enables density but creates continuous cleaning debt.
O3 canal irrigation raises output but can amplify salinity, inequality
and downstream ecological stress.
O4 dams buffer seasonal water and power but accumulate sediment,
displacement, fiscal and geopolitical dependencies.
O5 security capability can intensify grievance, opacity and recurring
coercion.
O6 digital and AI systems widen reach while concentrating compute, data,
power, platform and audit dependencies.

STANDARDISATION PARADOX:
Shared protocols enable scale; if repair, interpretation or material
supply becomes too concentrated, the same standard can transmit failure.

INFORMATION-HOST AMPLIFICATION:
Seals, inscriptions, manuscripts, census categories, databases and AI
models amplify selected information while erasing or compressing other
voices. Every host therefore carries an archive-bias and sensor-damage
field.

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11 | PORTABILITY, FISSION, LEGACY AND REPAIR

FUNCTIONAL PORTABILITY LADDER:
P0 place-bound; P1 person-carried; P2 recipe carried; P3 institution-carried;
P4 multi-host protocol; P5 seed package with dependencies; P6 independently
repairable in a new habitat.

PORTABILITY TEST CASES:
Indus weights: high protocol portability, dependent on shared reference and trust.
Indus signs: physical portability high, semantic portability now orphaned.
Kharosthi: host migration successful for centuries, later script lifecycle closed.
Buddhist manuscripts: teaching portable through translator and monastic hosts.
Canal agriculture: place- and water-bound despite transferable engineering.
AI models: code mobility does not close compute, data, energy, language, law or
repair dependencies.

FISSION NAMESPACES:
INSA.F01 Mature Harappan -> multiple Late Harappan regional systems.
INSA.F02 Mauryan northwest -> Indo-Greek and other successor hosts.
INSA.F03 Kushan system -> regional and Central-Asian successor polities.
INSA.F04 Mughal northwest -> Sikh, Afghan, Sindhi and colonial systems.
INSA.F05 British India 1947 -> India and Pakistan plus disputed accessions.
INSA.F06 Pakistan 1971 -> Pakistan and Bangladesh.
RULE: fission creates residues, dependencies and memories; it does not make
children identical to the parent or to one another.

LEGACY STACK:
material residue; ecological residue; route residue; institutional residue;
linguistic residue; ritual residue; legal residue; archive residue;
trauma residue; dependency residue; unrepairable loss.

REPAIR AUTHORITY:
A technically plausible repair is invalid until affected communities,
custodians, workers, ecological hosts and legally competent institutions
are identified. Consent, redress, maintenance finance and audit are part
of the repair, not optional post-processing.

TRUE REVERSE-HYDRA EXAMPLE:
Proposed river or AI intervention -> claimed output -> infrastructure
dependencies -> material/energy/water/data receipts -> labour and
displacement -> legal authority -> affected non-users -> ecological
feedback -> maintenance and exit -> return to original claim.

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12 | ASSERTION AND NON-COLLAPSE REGISTER

INSA.A001 | PLACE_CONTINUITY_NE_POPULATION_CONTINUITY | A reused landscape does not prove uninterrupted ancestry.
INSA.A002 | POPULATION_CONTINUITY_NE_LANGUAGE_CONTINUITY | Genes cannot assign an ancient language.
INSA.A003 | MATERIAL_SIMILARITY_NE_POLITICAL_CONTROL | Shared artefacts do not map sovereignty.
INSA.A004 | RELATION_TYPE_NE_ATTESTATION | A modelled connection and an observed transaction are different fields.
INSA.A005 | REACHABLE_NE_INTERACTED | Geographic possibility is not historical contact.
INSA.A006 | COMPARED_NE_INFLUENCED | Analytic similarity is not transmission.
INSA.A007 | UNKNOWN_NE_NONE | Missing evidence does not warrant absence.
INSA.A008 | NOT_ATTESTED_NE_DID_NOT_EXIST | Archive silence is not proof of nonexistence.
INSA.A009 | STANDARDISATION_NE_CENTRAL_STATE | Interoperability does not identify a monarch or capital.
INSA.A010 | CITY_NE_CIVILISATION | Rural, mobile and ecological hosts remain constitutive.
INSA.A011 | SCRIPT_NE_DECIPHERED_LANGUAGE | Patterned signs do not supply a consensus reading.
INSA.A012 | ONE_GENOME_NE_WHOLE_POPULATION | Rakhigarhi sample scope remains explicit.
INSA.A013 | ANCESTRY_NE_IDENTITY | Biological relatedness does not define culture, caste or nation.
INSA.A014 | CLIMATE_PRESSURE_NE_MONOCAUSE | Drought and river change interact with social systems.
INSA.A015 | URBAN_CONTRACTION_NE_POPULATION_DISAPPEARANCE | City decline can coexist with local continuity.
INSA.A016 | ARCHAEOLOGICAL_HORIZON_NE_PEOPLE | Cemetery H, Jhukar and related labels are analytical constructs.
INSA.A017 | CONQUEST_NE_INSTANT_CONVERSION | Political and religious transitions have separate clocks.
INSA.A018 | EMPIRE_CLAIM_NE_EFFECTIVE_CONTROL | Route, garrison and hinterland reach must be tested separately.
INSA.A019 | MOTIVE_NE_FUNCTION_NE_USE_NE_PURPOSE | Interpretive categories stay independent.
INSA.A020 | OWNERSHIP_NE_CUSTODY_NE_AUTHORITY_NE_ACCESS | Heritage rights use distinct edges.
INSA.A021 | DISCOVERY_NE_SINGLE_DISCOVERER | Knowledge production includes earlier finds and field labour.
INSA.A022 | LEGAL_SOVEREIGNTY_NE_LIVED_IDENTITY | Partition and Kashmir require multi-field representation.
INSA.A023 | TREATY_CRISIS_NE_TREATY_ERASURE | Announced abeyance does not by itself settle international law.
INSA.A024 | OFFICIAL_PLAN_NE_OPERATING_CAPABILITY | Budgets, AI proposals and corridors retain lifecycle status.
INSA.A025 | CURRENT_NE_PERMANENT | Live records freeze only at the declared child-clock cutoff.
INSA.A026 | INTEGRATION_NON_IDENTITY | A combined model preserves the identity of its source domains.
INSA.A027 | FUNCTIONAL_PORTABILITY | A function is portable only with dependencies, hosts and repair capacity.
INSA.A028 | TRUE_REVERSE_HYDRA | Repair validates by tracing consequences back to active substrate and affected agents.
INSA.A029 | AGENT_FLUX_ONLY_FOR_AGENTS | Material and energy processes use their own typed flows.
INSA.A030 | EVIDENCE_PUBLICATION_NE_ANCIENT_EVENT | 2025 and 2026 studies update evidence history, not ancient dates.

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13 | EVIDENCE PACKETS

INSA.E001 | early occupation
EVIDENCE: Riwat and Masol claims
LIMIT: geological context and fracture/taphonomy are decisive
CONFIDENCE: contested-to-qualified
RULE: do not promote corridor possibility into occupation
INSA.E002 | Mehrgarh
EVIDENCE: stratigraphy, architecture, plants, animals, bodies and craft
LIMIT: phase dates are approximate
CONFIDENCE: high
RULE: separate local adaptation from imported domesticates
INSA.E003 | Mature Harappan extent
EVIDENCE: settlement survey, excavation and material distributions
LIMIT: political borders are unknown
CONFIDENCE: high for interaction sphere
RULE: do not map material distribution as sovereignty
INSA.E004 | Harappan political form
EVIDENCE: coordination indicators and absent deciphered offices
LIMIT: negative evidence is archive-conditioned
CONFIDENCE: low-to-medium
RULE: UNKNOWN is not egalitarian or stateless
INSA.E005 | Indus signs
EVIDENCE: corpus, context and sequence statistics
LIMIT: no accepted bilingual or decipherment
CONFIDENCE: high for patterned system; low for language
RULE: keep every reading hypothetical
INSA.E006 | river history
EVIDENCE: stratigraphy, remote sensing and geochronology
LIMIT: channel dates and local flow differ
CONFIDENCE: high-to-medium
RULE: no glacier-river collapse shortcut
INSA.E007 | 2025 drought model
EVIDENCE: speleothem and settlement comparison
LIMIT: regional causal weights remain uncertain
CONFIDENCE: medium-high
RULE: climate is pressure, not sole cause
INSA.E008 | Rakhigarhi genome
EVIDENCE: one ancient whole-genome sample
LIMIT: sample is not population-wide
CONFIDENCE: medium
RULE: ancestry is not language or identity
INSA.E009 | Kashmir mitogenomes
EVIDENCE: mitochondrial sequences across selected burials
LIMIT: maternal-only and sparse sampling
CONFIDENCE: medium
RULE: do not name archaeological cultures genetically
INSA.E010 | Gandhara
EVIDENCE: inscriptions, coins, archaeology, texts and manuscripts
LIMIT: political and religious clocks differ
CONFIDENCE: high-to-medium
RULE: no nationalist inheritance chain
INSA.E011 | medieval transitions
EVIDENCE: chronicles, inscriptions, coins and archaeology
LIMIT: elite textual overrepresentation
CONFIDENCE: medium
RULE: conquest is not instant population or religious replacement
INSA.E012 | colonial archaeology
EVIDENCE: reports, photographs, plans and collections
LIMIT: labour and removal bias
CONFIDENCE: high for excavation history
RULE: custody and interpretive authority stay separate
INSA.E013 | Partition
EVIDENCE: archives, testimony and demographic reconstruction
LIMIT: scale and local experience vary
CONFIDENCE: high
RULE: represent perpetrators, states, survivors and the missing explicitly
INSA.E014 | live 2024–2026
EVIDENCE: official, legal, scientific and independent reporting
LIMIT: subject to post-cutoff correction
CONFIDENCE: high for dated acts
RULE: plans, claims and operating states remain separate

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14 | CONTROL-TOWER AND FUTURE-AT-CUTOFF RULES

LIVE_CUTOFF: 2026-07-29T17:33:38+08:00
LIVE SOURCE PACK: INSA.S109-INSA.S133 plus INSA.S140 control composite.
FUTURE_AT_CUTOFF:
Anything reported, scheduled, litigated, constructed, elected, trained,
deployed, damaged or repaired after the cutoff is unobserved in this release.
A later release may amend the live tail without renumbering protected IDs;
corrections enter as new evidence-history records and supersession edges.

RECONCILIATION DEBT:
World Master W068 ends 28 July 2026; this child object carries a declared
29 July live-tail overlay. The parent registry must adopt the same endpoint
or retain this explicit child-clock exception at its next release.

CURRENT OPEN QUESTIONS:
Harappan political geometry; Indus sign linguistic status; demographic
diversity beyond sparse ancient genomes; local weights of climate and social
pressure; contested river-law process; Kashmir legal/control settlement;
effective versus announced AI capability; heritage consent and access.

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15 | SOURCE LEDGER

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INSA.S006 | Civilisation Atlas Article 16, Scale, Zoom and Depth, CA-ARCH-SCALE-ZOOM-DEPTH-001 / CA-RUNTIME-MULTISCALE-001.
INSA.S007 | Civilisation Atlas Article 17, Control Geometry, CA-CONTROL-GEOMETRY / CONTROL-GEOMETRY-ASSESSMENT-RUNTIME.
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INSA.S052 | Parpola, A., Deciphering the Indus Script, Cambridge University Press, 1994; retained as a major hypothesis, not an accepted reading.
INSA.S053 | Mahadevan, I., The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables, Archaeological Survey of India, 1977.
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INSA.S079 | UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Buddhist Ruins of Takht-i-Bahi and Neighbouring City Remains at Sahr-i-Bahlol. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/140/
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INSA.S085 | Dani, A.H., The Historic City of Taxila, UNESCO, 1986.
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INSA.S087 | Ahmed, M.A., A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia, Harvard University Press, 2016.
INSA.S088 | Eaton, R.M., India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765, University of California Press, 2019.
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INSA.S090 | Eaton, R.M., The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, comparative process framework; Islamisation is not reduced to conquest, 1993.
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INSA.S097 | Gilmartin, D., Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan, University of California Press, 1988.
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INSA.S122 | Government of India Press Information Bureau, IndiaAI models and compute status, 13 March 2026. https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2239614
INSA.S123 | Government of India Press Information Bureau, Safe & Trusted AI and 20 identified sovereign-model proposals, 29 July 2026. https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleaseDetail.aspx?PRID=2289946&lang=1&reg=3
INSA.S124 | Pakistan Digital Authority, Islamabad AI Declaration and sovereign AI position, 9 February 2026. https://www.pda.gov.pk/press-release.php
INSA.S125 | UNESCO, Ethical AI and Data Governance Framework in Pakistan, 26 February 2026. https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-advocates-ethical-ai-and-data-governance-framework-pakistan-governance-forum
INSA.S126 | IMF, Executive Board Completes Third EFF Review and Second RSF Review for Pakistan, 8 May 2026. https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/05/08/pr-26147-pakistan-imf-completes-3rd-rev-of-extended-arrangement-under-eff-and-2nd-rev-arrang-rsf
INSA.S127 | Reuters, Pakistan FY2026/27 budget raises defence spending and limits development spending, 12 June 2026. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-budget-projects-fy27-total-spending-1877-trillion-rupees-raises-defence-2026-06-12/
INSA.S128 | Reuters, S&P raises Pakistan sovereign rating to B, 22 July 2026. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sp-raises-pakistans-sovereign-rating-b-citing-reforms-implementation-2026-07-22/
INSA.S129 | Reuters, heavy rain and flooding across India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 23 July 2026. https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/floods-northeast-india-kill-10-thousands-affected-2026-07-23/
INSA.S130 | World Meteorological Organization, State of the Global Climate and South Asian monsoon/climate records; observations remain distinct from forecasts. https://wmo.int/
INSA.S131 | Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources and Pakistan Meteorological Department, Indus, groundwater, drought and monsoon monitoring portals.
INSA.S132 | Indus River System Authority, reservoir and water-allocation records; administrative observations do not by themselves resolve treaty law.
INSA.S133 | UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Pakistan state-party and state-of-conservation records. https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/pk
INSA.S134 | British Museum and Archaeological Survey of India collection histories for partitioned Indus finds; title, custody, origin, access and community authority remain separate relations.
INSA.S135 | Lahiri, N., Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern Histories, Permanent Black, 2012.
INSA.S136 | Wheeler, R.E.M., The Indus Civilization, third edition, Cambridge University Press, 1968; used as evidence history, with the invasion model not adopted.
INSA.S137 | Marshall, J., Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization, 3 vols., Arthur Probsthain, 1931; excavation archive, not final interpretation.
INSA.S138 | Marshall, J., An Indian Tiryns and Mycenae: A Forgotten Age Revealed, Illustrated London News, 20 September 1924; public-announcement record.
INSA.S139 | Masson, C.; Cunningham, A.; Sahni, D.R.; Banerji, R.D.; Mackay, E.J.H.; archival reports on Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, interpreted with colonial archive and labour-credit bias.
INSA.S140 | LIVE CONTROL-TOWER COMPOSITE frozen at 17:33:38 Asia/Singapore, 29 July 2026: official, scientific and independently reported records INSA.S109–INSA.S133. It supports no post-cutoff event and no unimplemented outcome.

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