causal hypothesis · hyp_egyfull_state_formation_network_competition
State formation through network expansion and elite competition
Late Predynastic political integration emerged through interacting processes of elite competition, exchange, administration and incorporation of regional centres.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: plausible multicausal model. This is separate from specialist review.
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Research assessment
statement
Late Predynastic political integration emerged through interacting processes of elite competition, exchange, administration and incorporation of regional centres.mechanisms
- Elite competition among Upper Egyptian centres
- Expansion of exchange and administrative notation
- Incorporation and negotiation with Delta centres
chronology test
Regional political and administrative indicators should intensify before and during the Bayesian Dynasty 1 transition range.geography test
Evidence should show uneven, staged integration rather than instantaneous nationwide replacement.important caveat
The evidence is sufficient for a process model but not for assigning identical mechanisms to every region.Research description
The evidence is sufficient for a process model but not for assigning identical mechanisms to every region.
Evidence and sources
Supporting sources
- supports · supports mechanisms
Late Fourth Millennium BCE — Marcelo Campagno (2013)Supports regional process model.
Locator: Late fourth-millennium political integration - supports · supports chronology test
An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling — Michael W. Dee, David Wengrow, Andrew Shortland, Alice Stevenson, Fiona Brock, Linus Girdland Flink, Christopher Bronk Ramsey (2013)Constrains timing.
Locator: Bayesian transition model
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