Granaries
Purpose-built storage structures for grain reserves, enabling taxation, famine buffering, seed preservation, and state logistics.
Core metadata
- ID: granaries
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9000 (millennium)
- Region: Early Southwest Asian farming settlements
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Granary Pest Control (granary_pest_control)
- Public Grain Distribution (public_grain_distribution)
- Public Granary Accounting (public_granary_accounting)
- State Grain Reserves (state_grain_reserves)
- Threshing & Winnowing (threshing_and_winnowing)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 4
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 4
| 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. |
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| Food Storage Pits (food_storage_pits) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Food Storage Pits provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Pottery (pottery) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Pottery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Masonry (masonry) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Masonry provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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