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
291	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	present	None
292	(Hawaii I)	Full Year Range of Hawaii I is assumed. [1000, 1200]	absent	None
293	(Hawaii III)	Full Year Range of Hawaii III is assumed. [1580, 1778]	absent	None
294	(Kalingga Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Kalingga Kingdom is assumed. [500, 732]	present	None
295	(Majapahit Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Majapahit Kingdom is assumed. [1292, 1518]	present	None
296	(Medang Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Medang Kingdom is assumed. [732, 1019]	present	None
297	(Kingdom of Ayodhya)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Ayodhya is assumed. [-64, 34]	present	None
298	(Chalukyas of Kalyani)	Full Year Range of Chalukyas of Kalyani is assumed. [973, 1189]	present	None
299	(Post-Mauryan Kingdoms)	Full Year Range of Post-Mauryan Kingdoms is assumed. [-205, -101]	present	None
300	(Early A'chik)	Full Year Range of Early A'chik is assumed. [1775, 1867]	absent	None

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