Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Writing Systems

Written Record

Talking about writing systems, written records are more than short and fragmentary inscriptions, such as found on tombs or runic stones. there must be several sentences strung together, at the very minimum. for example, royal proclamations from mesopotamia and egypt qualify as written records (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
written_record	The absence or presence of written record for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Written Record	Description	Edit
1	(Xianbei Confederation)	100 CE 229 CE	absent	None
2	(Xianbei Confederation)	230 CE 250 CE	present	None
3	(Kansai - Kofun Period)	250 CE 399 CE	absent	None
4	(Rouran Khaganate)	300 CE 499 CE	absent	None
5	(Kansai - Kofun Period)	399 CE 449 CE	absent	None
6	(Kansai - Kofun Period)	399 CE 537 CE	present	None
7	(Rouran Khaganate)	500 CE 555 CE	present	None
8	(Icelandic Commonwealth)	930 CE 1100 CE	absent	None
9	(Icelandic Commonwealth)	1101 CE 1262 CE	present	None
10	(Kingdom of Kaffa)	1390 CE 1499 CE	unknown	None

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