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
401	(Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period)	Full Year Range of Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period is assumed. [854, 1193]	present	None
402	(Kachi Plain - Urban Period I)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Urban Period I is assumed. [-2500, -2100]	present	None
403	(Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia)	Full Year Range of Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia is assumed. [-2000, -1700]	present	None
404	(Byzantine Empire I)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire I is assumed. [632, 866]	present	None
405	(Byzantine Empire II)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire II is assumed. [867, 1072]	present	None
406	(Byzantine Empire III)	Full Year Range of Byzantine Empire III is assumed. [1073, 1204]	present	None
407	(Hatti - New Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Hatti - New Kingdom is assumed. [-1400, -1180]	present	None
408	(Kingdom of Lydia)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Lydia is assumed. [-670, -546]	present	None
409	(Ottoman Emirate)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Emirate is assumed. [1299, 1402]	present	None
410	(Phrygian Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Phrygian Kingdom is assumed. [-900, -695]	present	None

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