ranked model · modelset_egyfull_early_state_formation
modelset_egyfull_early_state_formation
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: not recorded. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Model comparison
models
- rank
- 1
- reason
- Best accommodates staged regional evidence and Bayesian chronology.
- confidence
- moderate
- rank
- 2
- reason
- Relies too heavily on literal reading of royal imagery and cannot supply one secure event horizon.
- confidence
- low
- model name
- Single Narmer conquest event
ranking basis
Chronological fit, regional archaeological evidence and avoidance of literal iconographic readingsEvidence and sources
- supports · supports ranking
Late Fourth Millennium BCE — Marcelo Campagno (2013)Supports the staged-process model.
Locator: Political integration discussion - supports · supports ranking
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 model chronology.
Locator: Bayesian early-state chronology
Referenced records
- State formation through network expansion and elite competition · causal hypothesis