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
261	(Longshan)	Full Year Range of Longshan is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	absent	None
262	(Northern Song)	Full Year Range of Northern Song is assumed. [960, 1127]	present	None
263	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
264	(Late Shang)	Full Year Range of Late Shang is assumed. [-1250, -1045]	present	None
265	(Early Wei Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Early Wei Dynasty is assumed. [-445, -225]	present	None
266	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	present	None
267	(Neguanje)	Full Year Range of Neguanje is assumed. [250, 1050]	absent	None
268	(Tairona)	Full Year Range of Tairona is assumed. [1050, 1524]	absent	None
269	(Shuar - Colonial)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Colonial is assumed. [1534, 1830]	absent	None
270	(Shuar - Ecuadorian)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed. [1831, 1931]	absent	None

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