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
451	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None
452	(Tang Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty I is assumed. [617, 763]	present	None
453	(Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Late Qing is assumed. [1796, 1912]	present	None
454	(Tang Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty II is assumed. [763, 907]	present	None
455	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	absent	None
456	(Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period is assumed. [-1300, -500]	absent	None
457	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
458	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
459	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	present	None
460	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	absent	None

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