Code from Seshat publication supplementary materials

This page includes a table of Seshat publications which have supplementary materials including links to re-usable anaylysis scripts hosted online (e.g. with GitHub, Zenodo, OSF).

A full list of academic publications associated with the project is available at seshatdatabank.info/academic-publications.

Papers that have attached code and/or supplementary materials

Supplementary materials	Included code language	Paper
OSF	N/A	All Crises are Unhappy in their Own Way: The role of societal instability in shaping the past
PDF in paper	N/A	The characteristic time scale of cultural evolution
OSF	N/A	Navigating Polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
GitHub, OSF	C++, Python, R	Explaining population booms and busts in Mid-Holocene Europe
GitHub, Zenodo	R	Structural-Demographic Analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) Collapse in China
OSF	N/A	CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises
N/A	N/A	Decline and Fall, Growth and Spread, or Resilience? Approaches to Studying How and Why Societies Change
N/A	N/A	Multipath Forecasting: The Aftermath of the 2020 American Crisis
OSF	R	Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
OSF	R	Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses
OSF	R	Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”
GitHub, Zenodo	Python	Retrodicting the rise, spread, and fall of large-scale states in the Old World
OSF	R	Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution
OSF	R	An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History Databank
Harvard Dataverse	R	Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia
Data Dryad	R	Fitting Dynamic Regression Models to Seshat Data
OSF	N/A	A Systematic Assessment of “Axial Age” Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence