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
21	(Nkore)	1750 CE 1859 CE	absent	None
22	(Sakha - Late)	1801 CE 1900 CE	present	None
23	(Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late)	1832 CE 1848 CE	present	None
24	(Early Modern Sierra Leone)	1833 CE 1896 CE	present	None
25	(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)	1841 CE 1921 CE	absent	None
26	(Buganda)	1860 CE 1894 CE	present	None
27	(Nkore)	1860 CE 1901 CE	unknown	None
28	(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)	1922 CE 1987 CE	present	None
29	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
30	(Carolingian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Carolingian Empire II is assumed. [840, 987]	present	None

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