EARLY NON-CUNEIFORM WRITING? THIRD-MILLENNIUM BC CLAY CYLINDERS FROM UMM EL-MARRA

2010 ◽  
pp. 375-395
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 23-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jess Beck ◽  
Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla ◽  
Hervé Bocherens ◽  
Pedro Díaz-del-Río

Antiquity ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (329) ◽  
pp. 839-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Genz

The author reports an object of modest appearance but great significance — a small bone beam for weighing precious commodities. Weighing indicates the regulation of quantities for exchange or manufacture and is thus a key agent of social and economic complexity. Well-stratified and dated to the early third millennium BC, this find puts the people of the Levant among the earliest to quantify mass. We are rightly urged to inspect faunal assemblages for similarly subtle modifications of bones.


Archaeometry ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D'Ercole ◽  
G. Eramo ◽  
E. A. A. Garcea ◽  
I. M. Muntoni ◽  
J. R. Smith

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