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Title:
Decipherment of the Earliest Tablets
Authors:
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
Publication:
Science, Volume 211, Issue 4479, pp. 283-285 (Sci Homepage)
Publication Date:
01/1981
Origin:
JSTOR
DOI:
10.1126/science.211.4479.283
Bibliographic Code:
1981Sci...211..283S

Abstract

The first signs of writing were crudely impressed on clay tablets. These signs are found to represent and stand for clay tokens used for recording prior to writing. The recent decoding of a series of tokens makes it possible to identify the signs as units of grain metrology, land measure, animal numeration, and other economic units.
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