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)

Contributors:

Metadata:

Download MetaData

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.

Actual Data:

Add More Facts Download All See One-Page Mode

#	Polity	Year(s)	Written Record	Description	Edit
141	(Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic is assumed. [-6000, -5500]	absent	None
142	(Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic is assumed. [-5500, -3000]	absent	None
143	(East Roman Empire)	Full Year Range of East Roman Empire is assumed. [395, 631]	present	None
144	(Lysimachus Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Lysimachus Kingdom is assumed. [-323, -281]	present	None
145	(Konya Plain - Ceramic Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Ceramic Neolithic is assumed. [-7000, -6600]	absent	None
146	(Konya Plain - Early Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Neolithic is assumed. [-9600, -7000]	absent	None
147	(Konya Plain - Late Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Neolithic is assumed. [-6600, -6000]	absent	None
148	(Ottoman Empire II)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire II is assumed. [1517, 1683]	present	None
149	(Ottoman Empire III)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire III is assumed. [1683, 1839]	present	None
150	(Mataram Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Mataram Sultanate is assumed. [1568, 1703]	present	None

Page 15 (of 48)