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
271	(Egypt - Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty I is assumed. [-3100, -2900]	present	None
272	(Naqada I)	Full Year Range of Naqada I is assumed. [-3800, -3550]	absent	None
273	(Naqada II)	Full Year Range of Naqada II is assumed. [-3550, -3300]	absent	None
274	(Akkadian Empire)	Full Year Range of Akkadian Empire is assumed. [-2270, -2083]	present	None
275	(Amorite Babylonia)	Full Year Range of Amorite Babylonia is assumed. [-2000, -1600]	present	None
276	(Egypt - Dynasty 0)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty 0 is assumed. [-3300, -3100]	present	None
277	(Egypt - Saite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Saite Period is assumed. [-664, -525]	present	None
278	(Spanish Empire I)	Full Year Range of Spanish Empire I is assumed. [1516, 1715]	present	None
279	(Axum I)	Full Year Range of Axum I is assumed. [-149, 349]	present	None
280	(Chuuk - Late Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Late Truk is assumed. [1886, 1948]	present	None

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