Boundary Markers & Land Tenure

Physical markers, remembered boundaries, and recorded claims used to define fields, irrigation rights, inheritance, and taxation.

Core metadata

ID: boundary_markers_land_tenure
Era: Ancient
First known date: -3000 (century)
Region: Global / multiple regions
Review status: source_checked
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Field Boundary Survey Stones (field_boundary_survey_stones)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 3
Average edge confidence: 73%
Prerequisite sources: 2
expert_inference: 3

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
Agriculture (agriculture)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge
Record Keeping (record_keeping)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Record Keeping is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	How to write cuneiform (British Museum, 2020, museum) • Supports: edge
Basic Geometry and Surveying (basic_geometry_and_surveying)	historical_predecessor	75%	expert_inference	Basic Geometry and Surveying is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency.	No sources recorded.

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