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
121	(Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2650, -2350]	present	None
122	(Latium - Bronze Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Bronze Age is assumed. [-1800, -900]	absent	None
123	(Ostrogothic Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Ostrogothic Kingdom is assumed. [489, 554]	present	None
124	(Early Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Early Roman Republic is assumed. [-509, -264]	present	None
125	(Middle Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Middle Roman Republic is assumed. [-264, -133]	present	None
126	(Heian)	Full Year Range of Heian is assumed. [794, 1185]	present	None
127	(Kadamba Empire)	Full Year Range of Kadamba Empire is assumed. [345, 550]	present	None
128	(Hoysala Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Hoysala Kingdom is assumed. [1108, 1346]	unknown	None
129	(The Emirate of Crete)	Full Year Range of The Emirate of Crete is assumed. [824, 961]	present	None
130	(Gurjar-Pratihara Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Gurjar-Pratihara Dynasty is assumed. [730, 1030]	present	None

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