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
71	(Ak Koyunlu)	Full Year Range of Ak Koyunlu is assumed. [1339, 1501]	present	None
72	(Western Jin)	Full Year Range of Western Jin is assumed. [265, 317]	present	None
73	(Egypt - Late Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Late Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2350, -2150]	present	None
74	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
75	(Tang Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty I is assumed. [617, 763]	present	None
76	(Neo-Babylonian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Babylonian Empire is assumed. [-626, -539]	present	None
77	(Kassite Babylonia)	Full Year Range of Kassite Babylonia is assumed. [-1595, -1150]	present	None
78	(Neo-Assyrian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Assyrian Empire is assumed. [-911, -612]	present	None
79	(Uruk)	Full Year Range of Uruk is assumed. [-4000, -2900]	present	None
80	(Magadha)	Full Year Range of Magadha is assumed. [450, 605]	present	None

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