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Late Formative Yoruba

650 CE 1049 CE
D G SC RG New WA  ni_formative_yoruba
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  General Description   "As a result, a new social configuration featuring formalized association and integration of multiple households under a single leadership became necessary as a means of organizing and safeguarding land and labor. It was the beginning of a departure from the two- to three-generation households and hamlets that had been the preferred unit of social organization in the preceding centuries. The new social configuration was the House—what the Yorùbá call an ilé (literally, “house”), an emergent corporate group that has since formed the primary basis of the Yorùbá social organization. [...] Organized under a hierarchy of leadership, members and units of an ilé shared access to land and other means of production; maintained a common narrative of origin; and subscribed to the same ritual practices, deities, ancestors, taboos, and metaphysics." [1]

[1]: (Ogundiran 2020: 47-48)

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion
Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods) Coding in Progress.
Religion Variables Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions Coding in Progress.

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Year Range Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba) was in:
Home NGA: None
General Variables
Identity and Location Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Original Name Late Formative Yoruba Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Temporal Bounds Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Duration [650 CE ➜ 1049 CE] Confident
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Political and Cultural Relations Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Succeeding Entity Classical Ife Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Relationship to Preceding Entity continuity Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Preceding Entity
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Degree of Centralization quasi-polity Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Language Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Linguistic Family Yoruboid Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Language Yoruba Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Religion Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Hierarchical Complexity Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Settlement Hierarchy 2 Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Religious Level [2 to 3] Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Administrative Level 2 Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Professions Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Bureaucracy Characteristics Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Law Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Judge Absent Inferred 650 CE  1049 CE
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Specialized Buildings: polity owned Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Transport Infrastructure Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Special-purpose Sites Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Information / Writing System Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Written Record Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Script Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Phonetic Alphabetic Writing Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Non Phonetic Writing Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Information / Kinds of Written Documents Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Scientific Literature Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Sacred Text Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Religious Literature Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Practical Literature Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Philosophy Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Lists Tables and Classification Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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History Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Fiction Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Calendar Absent Confident 650 CE  1049 CE
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Information / Money Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Information / Postal System Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Information / Measurement System Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Military use of Metals Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Projectiles Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Handheld weapons Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Animals used in warfare Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Armor Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Naval technology Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Religion Variables
Moralizing Supernatural Punishment and Reward Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Moralizing Enforcement is Broad Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Supernatural Concern is Primary Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Agentic Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement in This Life Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Supernatural Punishment And Reward Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Religion Adopted by Commoners Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Targeted Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement in Afterlife Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Religion Adopted by Elites Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement of Rulers Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Certain Unknown Suspected 650 CE  1049 CE
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Human Sacrifice Late Formative Yoruba (ni_formative_yoruba)
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Crisis Cases
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Instability Data
Power Transitions
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