An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank. (31st December 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank. (31st December 2018)
- Main Title:
- An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
- Authors:
- Turchin, Peter
Whitehouse, Harvey
François, Pieter
Hoyer, Daniel
Alves, Abel
Baines, John
Baker, David
Bartkowiak, Marta
Bates, Jennifer
Bennett, James
Bidmead, Julye
Bol, Peter
Ceccarelli, Alessandro
Christakis, Kostis
Christian, David
Covey, Alan
De Angelis, Franco
Earle, Timothy
Edwards, Neil
Feinman, Gary
Grohmann, Stephanie
Holden, Philip
Júlíusson, Árni
Korotayev, Andrey
Kristinsson, Axel
Larson, Jennifer
Litwin, Oren
Mair, Victor
Manning, Joseph
Manning, Patrick
Marciniak, Arkadiusz
McMahon, Gregory
Miksic, John
Garcia, Juan Carlos Moreno
Morris, Ian
Mostern, Ruth
Mullins, Daniel
Oyebamiji, Oluwole
Peregrine, Peter
Petrie, Cameron
Prieser-Kapeller, Johannes
Rudiak-Gould, Peter
Sabloff, Paula
Savage, Patrick
Spencer, Charles
Stark, Miriam
ter Haar, Barend
Thurner, Stefan
Wallace, Vesna
Witoszek, Nina
Xie, Liye
… (more) - Abstract:
- Abstract : This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about the co-evolution (or not) of social scale and complexity, agriculture, warfare, religion, and any number of such Big Questions. Seshat is rapidly becoming a massive resource for innovative cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research. Seshat is part of a growing trend to use comparative historical data on a large scale and contributes as such to a growing consilience between the humanities and social sciences. Seshat is underpinned by a robust and transparent workflow to ensure the ever growing dataset is of high quality.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of cognitive historiography. Volume 5:Number 1/2(2018/2019)
- Journal:
- Journal of cognitive historiography
- Issue:
- Volume 5:Number 1/2(2018/2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 5, Issue 1/2 (2018/2019)
- Year:
- 2018/2019
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 1/2
- Issue Sort Value:
- NaN-0005-NaN-0000
- Page Start:
- 115
- Page End:
- 123
- Publication Date:
- 2018-12-31
- Subjects:
- global history -- social complexity -- big data -- interdisciplinarity -- cultural evolution
Historiography -- Periodicals
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Cognition and culture -- Periodicals
907.2 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/JCH ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1558/jch.39395 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2051-9672
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- Legaldeposit
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