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]
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Variable Definition
written_record The absence or presence of written record for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Written Record Description   Edit
11
(Kingdom of Kaffa)
1500 CE 1897 CE
present
None
12
(Funj Sultanate)
1504 CE 1699 CE
present
None
13
(Kaabu)
1550 CE 1699 CE
unknown
None
14
(Sakha - Late)
1632 CE 1800 CE
absent
None
15
(Early Modern Sierra Leone)
1650 CE 1832 CE
absent
None
16
(Funj Sultanate)
1700 CE 1820 CE
present
None
17
(Buganda)
1700 CE 1859 CE
absent
None
18
(Kaabu)
1700 CE 1867 CE
present
None
19
(Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late)
1714 CE 1831 CE
absent
None
20
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
None
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