Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East
Nissen, Hans J.
Translator Larsen, Paul
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Hardcover
184 pages
68 Halftones, 61 Figures, 1 Map
Published: 1993
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN / EAN: 0226586596
Brings together current scholarship on the earliest true writing system, the proto-cuneiform script, invented by the Babylonians at the end of the fourth millennium BC. The authors consider how the development of written records affected patterns of thou
