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- 類型：已發表論文
- 日期：2020-05-14
摘要
Throughout the Holocene, societies developed additional layers of administration and more 資訊-rich instruments for managing and recording transactions and events as they grew in 族群 and territory. Yet, while such increases seem inevitable, they are not. Here we use the Seshat database to investigate the development of hundreds of polities, from multiple continents, over thousands of years. We find that sociopolitical development is dominated first by growth in polity scale, then by improvements in 資訊 processing and 經濟 systems, and then by further increases in scale. We thus define a Scale Threshold for societies, beyond which growth in 資訊 processing becomes paramount, and an 資訊 Threshold, which once crossed facilitates additional growth in scale. Polities diverge in socio-political features
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