Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Forms of money

Article

Talking about forms of money, articles are items that have both a regular use and are used as money (example: axes, cattle, measures of grain, ingots of non-precious metals) (See here)

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Variable	Definition
Polity	The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s)	The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag	[Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
article	The absence or presence of article for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Article	Description	Edit
281	(Monte Alban Late I)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban Late I is assumed. [-300, -100]	unknown	None
282	(Monte Alban III)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban III is assumed. [200, 500]	unknown	None
283	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban IIIB and IV is assumed. [500, 900]	unknown	None
284	(Monte Alban V)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V is assumed. [900, 1520]	absent	None
285	(Early Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Early Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-1200, -801]	present	None
286	(Late Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Late Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-400, -101]	present	None
287	(Middle Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Middle Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-800, -401]	present	None
288	(Kingdom of Kaffa)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Kaffa is assumed. [1390, 1897]	present	None
289	(Terminal Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Terminal Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-100, 99]	present	None
290	(Oaxaca - San Jose)	Full Year Range of Oaxaca - San Jose is assumed. [-1150, -700]	absent	None

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