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
381	(Monte Alban III)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban III is assumed. [200, 500]	present	None
382	(Kachi Plain - Aceramic Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Aceramic Neolithic is assumed. [-7500, -5500]	absent	None
383	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban IIIB and IV is assumed. [500, 900]	present	None
384	(Monte Alban V)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V is assumed. [900, 1520]	present	None
385	(Epiclassic Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Epiclassic Basin of Mexico is assumed. [650, 899]	absent	None
386	(Late Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Late Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-400, -101]	absent	None
387	(Middle Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Middle Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-800, -401]	absent	None
388	(Initial Formative Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Initial Formative Basin of Mexico is assumed. [-2000, -1201]	absent	None
389	(Middle Postclassic Basin of Mexico)	Full Year Range of Middle Postclassic Basin of Mexico is assumed. [1200, 1426]	absent	None
390	(Oaxaca - Rosario)	Full Year Range of Oaxaca - Rosario is assumed. [-700, -500]	present	None

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