Shiny Seshat v1.0

This initial release of the dataset is intended as a Supplemental Material for the 2020 article The two types of society: mathematically revealing recurrent social formations and their evolutionary trajectories by Lux Miranda and Jacob Freeman. Please see the “Data and methods” section of the work for full information on the dataset, and cite appropriately if you use Shiny Seshat in your work!

This work employs data from the Seshat Databank (seshatdatabank.info) under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC By-NC SA) licensing.

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Turchin, P. 2018. “Fitting Dynamic Regression Models to Seshat Data.” Cliodynamics 9(1): 25-58. https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio9137696.

Turchin, P., R. Brennan, T. E. Currie, K. Feeney, P. François, […] H. Whitehouse. 2015. “Seshat: The Global History Databank.” Cliodynamics 6(1): 77–107. https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio6127917.

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