Description
Archaic Bookkeeping brings together essentially the most current
scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human
history. Invented by the Babylonians on the end of the
fourth millennium B.C., this script, known as proto-cuneiform,
survives in the type of clay tablets that have until now
posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets,
excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear
context. As well as, the purpose of the earliest tablets
was to not record language but to monitor the administration
of local economies by the use of a numerical system.
Using the recent philological research and new methods
of computer analysis, the authors have for the first time
deciphered much of the numerical information. In
reconstructing both the social context and the function of
the notation, they imagine how the development of our
earliest written records affected patterns of thought, the
concept of number, and the administration of household
economies. Complete with computer-generated graphics keyed
to the discussion and reproductions of all documents referred
to in the text, Archaic Bookkeeping will interest
specialists in Near Eastern civilizations, ancient history,
the history of science and mathematics, and cognitive
psychology.
scholarship on the earliest true writing system in human
history. Invented by the Babylonians on the end of the
fourth millennium B.C., this script, known as proto-cuneiform,
survives in the type of clay tablets that have until now
posed formidable barriers to interpretation. Many tablets,
excavated in fragments from ancient dump sites, lack a clear
context. As well as, the purpose of the earliest tablets
was to not record language but to monitor the administration
of local economies by the use of a numerical system.
Using the recent philological research and new methods
of computer analysis, the authors have for the first time
deciphered much of the numerical information. In
reconstructing both the social context and the function of
the notation, they imagine how the development of our
earliest written records affected patterns of thought, the
concept of number, and the administration of household
economies. Complete with computer-generated graphics keyed
to the discussion and reproductions of all documents referred
to in the text, Archaic Bookkeeping will interest
specialists in Near Eastern civilizations, ancient history,
the history of science and mathematics, and cognitive
psychology.
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