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
61	(Final Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Final Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1200, -1000]	absent	None
62	(Hellenistic Crete)	Full Year Range of Hellenistic Crete is assumed. [-323, -69]	present	None
63	(Egypt - Period of the Regions)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Period of the Regions is assumed. [-2150, -2016]	present	None
64	(Kingdom of Norway II)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Norway II is assumed. [1262, 1396]	present	None
65	(Cahokia - Moorehead)	Full Year Range of Cahokia - Moorehead is assumed. [1200, 1274]	absent	None
66	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom II is assumed. [-217, -30]	present	None
67	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
68	(Cahokia - Lohman-Stirling)	Full Year Range of Cahokia - Lohman-Stirling is assumed. [1055, 1199]	absent	None
69	(Hmong - Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Hmong - Late Qing is assumed. [1701, 1895]	absent	None
70	(Ptolemaic Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom I is assumed. [-305, -217]	present	None

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