Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Special purpose sites

Mines or Quarry

Talking about special purpose sites, no Descriptions IN Codebook  
Contributors: Jenny, Majid, Peter

Variable Definition
Polity The Seshat Polity Name
Year(s) The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Confidence Inferred : The value is inferred.
Suspected : The value is suspected (Expert Check Needed).
Evidenced : The value is backed up by sufficient evidence.
Disputed? No : No disagreement among scholars.
Yes : There is disagreement among scholars.
Expert? : Not yet Checked by a Seshat Expert.
: Checked and accepted by a Seshat Expert (or RA).

Variable Definition
mines_or_quarry The absence or presence of mines or quarry for a polity.

# Polity   Year(s)   Mines or Quarry   Confidence     Disputed?     Expert?   Edit
1
Shuar - Colonial
1534 CE 1599 CE
present
Confident No Edit
2
Shuar - Colonial
1600 CE 1830 CE
absent
Confident No Edit
3
Spanish Empire II
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
Confident No Edit
4
Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II
1867 CE 1918 CE
present
Confident No Edit
5
Soviet Union
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
Confident No Edit
6
Naqada II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
7
Egypt - Dynasty 0
-
present
Inferred No Edit
8
Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
9
Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
10
Ptolemaic Kingdom I
-
present
Confident No Edit
11
Hephthalites
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
12
Tunni Sultanate
-
present
Confident No Edit
13
Harla Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
14
Hausa bakwai
-
present
Confident No Edit
15
Tocharians
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
16
Eastern Han Empire
-
present
Inferred No Edit
17
Western Jin
-
present
Inferred No Edit
18
Jin
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
19
Northern Wei
-
present
Inferred No Edit
20
Tang Dynasty I
-
present
Confident No Edit
21
Tang Dynasty II
-
present
Confident No Edit
22
Great Yuan
-
present
Confident No Edit
23
Ayyubid Sultanate
-
present
Confident No Edit
24
Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate I
-
present
Confident No Edit
25
Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III
-
present
Confident No Edit
26
Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I
-
present
Confident No Edit
27
Ptolemaic Kingdom II
-
present
Confident No Edit
28
Egypt - Period of the Regions
-
present
Inferred No Edit
29
Egypt - Saite Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
30
Egypt - Tulunid-Ikhshidid Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
31
Chuuk - Early Truk
-
absent
Confident No Edit
32
Hallstatt A-B1
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
33
La Tene A-B1
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
34
La Tene B2-C1
-
present
Inferred No Edit
35
La Tene C2-D
-
present
Confident No Edit
36
British Empire II
-
present
Confident No Edit
37
Archaic Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
38
The Emirate of Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
39
Longshan
-
present
Confident No Edit
40
Northern Song
-
present
Confident No Edit
41
Western Zhou
-
present
Inferred No Edit
42
Neguanje
-
present
Inferred No Edit
43
Egypt - Dynasty I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
44
Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
45
Egypt - Late Old Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
46
Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
47
Atlantic Complex
-
present
Confident No Edit
48
French Kingdom - Early Bourbon
-
present
Confident No Edit
49
Carolingian Empire II
-
present
Confident No Edit
50
Hallstatt D
-
present
Confident No Edit
51
French Kingdom - Late Valois
-
present
Confident No Edit
52
Akan - Pre-Ashanti
-
present
Confident No Edit
53
Classical Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
54
Final Postpalatial Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
55
Geometric Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
56
Hellenistic Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
57
Monopalatial Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
58
Postpalatial Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
59
Prepalatial Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
60
Hawaii I
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
61
Hawaii III
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
62
Dambadaneiya
-
present
Inferred No Edit
63
Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial
-
absent
Confident No Edit
64
Mataram Sultanate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
65
Medang Kingdom
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
66
Chalukyas of Badami
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
67
Chalukyas of Kalyani
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
68
Delhi Sultanate
-
present
Inferred No Edit
69
Early A'chik
-
absent
Confident No Edit
70
Late A'chik
-
absent
Confident No Edit
71
Hoysala Kingdom
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
72
Kadamba Empire
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
73
Mughal Empire
-
present
Inferred No Edit
74
Satavahana Empire
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
75
Vijayanagara Empire
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
76
Abbasid Caliphate I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
77
Abbasid Caliphate II
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
78
Early Dynastic
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
79
Ur - Dynasty III
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
80
Achaemenid Empire
-
present
Inferred No Edit
81
Ak Koyunlu
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
82
Buyid Confederation
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
83
Ilkhanate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
84
Elam II
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
85
Sasanid Empire I
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
86
Sasanid Empire II
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
87
Seleucids
-
present
Inferred No Edit
88
Seljuk Sultanate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
89
Elam - Shimashki Period
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
90
Elam - Early Sukkalmah
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
91
Elam - Late Sukkalmah
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
92
Susa II
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
93
Susa III
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
94
Latium - Iron Age
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
95
Ostrogothic Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
96
Papal States - High Medieval Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
97
Papal States - Medieval Period I
-
present
Confident No Edit
98
Papal States - Medieval Period II
-
present
Confident No Edit
99
Papal States - Renaissance Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
100
Exarchate of Ravenna
-
present
Confident No Edit
101
Early Roman Republic
-
present
Confident No Edit
102
Late Roman Republic
-
present
Confident No Edit
103
Middle Roman Republic
-
present
Confident No Edit
104
Roman Empire - Principate
-
present
Confident No Edit
105
Roman Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
106
Republic of St Peter I
-
present
Confident No Edit
107
Asuka
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
108
Kara-Khanids
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
109
Western Turk Khaganate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
110
Deccan - Neolithic
-
present
Confident No Edit
111
Rashtrakuta Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
112
Akkadian Empire
-
present
Inferred No Edit
113
Uruk
-
present
Confident No Edit
114
Elam - Igihalkid Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
115
Parthian Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
116
Rome - Republic of St Peter II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
117
Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama
-
present
Confident No Edit
118
Kamakura Shogunate
-
present
Confident No Edit
119
Kansai - Yayoi Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
120
Plantagenet England
-
present
Confident No Edit
121
Bamana kingdom
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
122
Songhai Empire - Askiya Dynasty
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
123
Second Turk Khaganate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
124
Uigur Khaganate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
125
Xianbei Confederation
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
126
Orokaiva - Pre-Colonial
-
absent
Confident No Edit
127
Indo-Greek Kingdom
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
128
Kachi Plain - Pre-Urban Period
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
129
Sind - Samma Dynasty
-
present
Inferred No Edit
130
Sakha - Early
-
absent
Confident No Edit
131
Umayyad Caliphate
-
present
Inferred No Edit
132
Konya Plain - Late Bronze Age II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
133
Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia
-
present
Inferred No Edit
134
Byzantine Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
135
Byzantine Empire II
-
present
Confident No Edit
136
Late Cappadocia
-
present
Inferred No Edit
137
East Roman Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
138
Lysimachus Kingdom
-
present
Inferred No Edit
139
Neo-Hittite Kingdoms
-
present
Inferred No Edit
140
Ottoman Empire II
-
present
Confident No Edit
141
Ottoman Empire III
-
present
Confident No Edit
142
Roman Empire - Dominate
-
present
Confident No Edit
143
Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Early
-
absent
Confident No Edit
144
Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late
-
absent
Confident No Edit
145
Phoenician Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
146
Mali Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
147
Khitan I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
148
Middle Wagadu Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
149
Monte Alban IIIB and IV
-
absent
Confident No Edit
150
Oaxaca - Rosario
-
absent
Confident No Edit
151
Kingdom of Norway II
-
absent
Confident No Edit
152
Cuzco - Late Intermediate I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
153
Kachi Plain - Aceramic Neolithic
-
present
Inferred No Edit
154
Kachi Plain - Chalcolithic
-
present
Inferred No Edit
155
Egypt - Kushite Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
156
Ayutthaya
-
present
Confident No Edit
157
Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age
-
present
Confident No Edit
158
Byzantine Empire III
-
present
Confident No Edit
159
Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic
-
present
Inferred No Edit
160
Ottoman Emirate
-
present
Confident No Edit
161
Tabal Kingdoms
-
present
Inferred No Edit
162
Sogdiana - City-States Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
163
Himyar I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
164
Himyar II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
165
Chagatai Khanate
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
166
Khanate of Bukhara
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
167
Timurid Empire
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
168
Yemen - Qasimid Dynasty
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
169
Beaker Culture
-
present
Confident No Edit
170
Kushan Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
171
Erligang
-
present
Confident No Edit
172
Erlitou
-
present
Inferred No Edit
173
Hmong - Early Chinese
-
present
Confident No Edit
174
Great Ming
-
present
Confident No Edit
175
Early Qing
-
present
Confident No Edit
176
Late Qing
-
present
Confident No Edit
177
Late Shang
-
present
Confident No Edit
178
Sui Dynasty
-
present
Inferred No Edit
179
Axum I
-
present
Confident No Edit
180
Yisrael
-
present
Inferred No Edit
181
Cahokia - Late Woodland III
-
present
Confident No Edit
182
Tairona
-
present
Confident No Edit
183
Chenla
-
present
Confident No Edit
184
Shuar - Ecuadorian
-
absent
Confident No Edit
185
Egypt - Dynasty II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
186
Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
187
Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period
-
present
Confident No Edit
188
Spanish Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
189
Chuuk - Late Truk
-
absent
Confident No Edit
190
French Kingdom - Late Bourbon
-
present
Confident No Edit
191
Proto-French Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
192
French Kingdom - Late Capetian
-
present
Confident No Edit
193
Carolingian Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
194
Hallstatt B2-3
-
present
Confident No Edit
195
Hallstatt C
-
present
Confident No Edit
196
Early Merovingian
-
present
Confident No Edit
197
Proto-Carolingian
-
present
Confident No Edit
198
Middle Merovingian
-
present
Confident No Edit
199
French Kingdom - Early Valois
-
present
Confident No Edit
200
Ashanti Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
201
New Palace Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
202
The Old Palace Crete
-
present
Confident No Edit
203
Iban - Pre-Brooke
-
absent
Confident No Edit
204
Canaan
-
present
Confident No Edit
205
Yehuda
-
present
Confident No Edit
206
Deccan - Iron Age
-
present
Confident No Edit
207
Gupta Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
208
Magadha - Maurya Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
209
Vakataka Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
210
Ubaid
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
211
Elam - Awan Dynasty I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
212
Elam - Kidinuid Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
213
Elam - Shutrukid Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
214
Elam III
-
present
Inferred No Edit
215
Parthian Empire II
-
present
Confident No Edit
216
Safavid Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
217
Icelandic Commonwealth
-
absent
Confident No Edit
218
Western Roman Empire - Late Antiquity
-
present
Confident No Edit
219
Ashikaga Shogunate
-
present
Confident No Edit
220
Heian
-
present
Confident No Edit
221
Japan - Early Jomon
-
present
Confident No Edit
222
Japan - Middle Jomon
-
present
Confident No Edit
223
Japan - Late Jomon
-
present
Confident No Edit
224
Japan - Final Jomon
-
present
Confident No Edit
225
Kansai - Kofun Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
226
Nara Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
227
Tokugawa Shogunate
-
present
Confident No Edit
228
Classical Angkor
-
present
Confident No Edit
229
Early Angkor
-
present
Confident No Edit
230
Late Angkor
-
present
Confident No Edit
231
Khmer Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
232
Cahokia - Late Woodland I
-
present
Confident No Edit
233
Monte Alban Late I
-
absent
Confident No Edit
234
Funan I
-
present
Confident No Edit
235
Funan II
-
present
Confident No Edit
236
Andronovo
-
present
Confident No Edit
237
Saadi Sultanate
-
present
Confident No Edit
238
Jenne-jeno I
-
present
Inferred No Edit
239
Jenne-jeno II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
240
Jenne-jeno III
-
present
Confident No Edit
241
Jenne-jeno IV
-
present
Confident No Edit
242
Eastern Turk Khaganate
-
present
Inferred No Edit
243
Zungharian Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
244
Later Wagadu Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
245
Early Monte Alban I
-
absent
Confident No Edit
246
Monte Alban II
-
absent
Confident No Edit
247
Monte Alban III
-
absent
Confident No Edit
248
Monte Alban V
-
absent
Confident No Edit
249
Early Formative Basin of Mexico
-
present
Inferred No Edit
250
Late Formative Basin of Mexico
-
present
Confident No Edit
251
Middle Formative Basin of Mexico
-
present
Inferred No Edit
252
Terminal Formative Basin of Mexico
-
present
Confident No Edit
253
Cahokia - Middle Woodland
-
present
Confident No Edit
254
Oaxaca - San Jose
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
255
Oaxaca - Tierras Largas
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
256
Cuzco - Early Intermediate I
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
257
Cuzco - Early Intermediate II
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
258
Cuzco - Late Intermediate II
-
present
Inferred No Edit
259
Cuzco - Late Formative
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
260
Inca Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
261
Wari Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
262
Orokaiva - Colonial
-
present
Confident No Edit
263
Kachi Plain - Ceramic Neolithic
-
present
Inferred No Edit
264
Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period
-
present
Inferred No Edit
265
Kachi Plain - Urban Period I
-
present
Confident No Edit
266
Cahokia - Sand Prairie
-
present
Confident No Edit
267
Kachi Plain - Urban Period II
-
present
Confident No Edit
268
Sakha - Late
-
absent
Confident No Edit
269
Rattanakosin
-
present
Confident No Edit
270
Sarazm
-
present
Inferred No Edit
271
Fatimid Caliphate
-
present
Confident No Edit
272
Hatti - New Kingdom
-
present
Inferred No Edit
273
Kingdom of Lydia
-
present
Confident No Edit
274
Ottoman Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
275
Phrygian Kingdom
-
present
Inferred No Edit
276
Rum Sultanate
-
present
Confident No Edit
277
Cahokia - Lohman-Stirling
-
present
Confident No Edit
278
Cahokia - Moorehead
-
present
Confident No Edit
279
Early Illinois Confederation
-
present
Confident No Edit
280
Cahokia - Early Woodland
-
present
Confident No Edit
281
Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian II
-
present
Confident No Edit
282
Cahokia - Late Woodland II
-
present
Confident No Edit
283
Ghur Principality
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
284
Oneota
-
present
Inferred No Edit
285
Ancient Khwarazm
-
present
Inferred No Edit
286
Samanid Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
287
Yemen - Tahirid Dynasty
-
present
Inferred No Edit
288
Great Zimbabwe
-
present
Confident No Edit
289
Torwa-Rozvi
-
present
Confident No Edit
290
Mutapa
-
present
Confident No Edit
291
Dutch Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
292
Kanem-Borno
-
present
Confident No Edit
293
Imamate of Futa Toro
-
present
Confident No Edit
294
Buganda
-
present
Confident No Edit
295
Buganda
-
present
Confident No Edit
296
Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì
-
present
Inferred No Edit
297
Middle and Late Nok
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
298
West Burkina Faso Yellow I
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
299
Middle and Late Nok
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
300
Oyo
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
301
Early United Mexican States
-
present
Confident No Edit
302
Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty
-
present
Confident No Edit
303
Us Reconstruction-Progressive
-
present
Confident No Edit
304
Late Tiwanaku
-
present
Confident No Edit
305
Chaco Canyon - Late Bonito phase
-
present
Confident No Edit
306
Antebellum US
-
present
Confident No Edit
307
Tudor and Early Stuart England
-
present
Confident No Edit
308
Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II
-
present
Confident No Edit
309
Khwarezmid Empire
-
present
Confident No Edit
310
Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I
-
present
Confident No Edit
311
Golden Horde
-
present
Confident No Edit
312
Saffarid Caliphate
-
present
Confident No Edit
313
British Empire I
-
present
Confident No Edit
314
Napoleonic France
-
present
Confident No Edit
315
Anglo-Saxon England II
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
316
Anglo-Saxon England I
-
absent
Inferred No Edit
317
Hohokam Culture
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
318
British Empire IIIIIIIIII
-
present
Confident No Edit
319
Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty II
-
present
Confident No Edit
320
Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty
-
present
Confident No Edit
321
Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I
-
present
Confident No Edit
322
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
-
unknown
Suspected No Edit
323
Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate II
-
present
Confident No Edit
324
Egypt - Middle Kingdom
-
present
Confident No Edit
325
Naqada I
-
present
Inferred No Edit