Bookkeeping without writing early administrative technologies in context : proceedings of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) Postdoctoral Research Fellow First Annual Conference, 5th and 6th February 2021 / edited by Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman.
| Author/creator | Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten |
| Other author | Bennison-Chapman, Lucy E. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden : Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten ; Leuven : Peeters, 2023. |
| Description | vi, 279 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 27 x 20 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | PIHANS ; volume CXXXIV Uitgaven van het Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten te Leiden ; 134. ^A713149 |
| Contents | Section 1. Background. Introduction / Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman -- The evolutionary foundations of Neolithic thought : the invention of words, cognitive fluidity, and objects as cognitive anchors / Steven Mithen. Section 2. The late Neolithic. Earliest date for seals and sealings in the Near East / Peter M.M.G. Akkermans -- Accounting for change? Symbols, replication and information management in the later prehistory of northern Mesopotamia / Stuart Campbell -- The origins of non-written administrative technologies in West Asia : the example of late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad / Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman. Section 3. The early historic period. The role of tokens in later Mesopotamia / John MacGinnis -- Sealed breads and tax-free canopies? Reflections on non-written administrative practices in Hittite Anatolia / Willemijn Waal. Section 4. Historic-ethnographic parallels. Bookkeeping with and without writing in Pharaonic Egypt / Ben Haring -- Tally sticks in Medieval Europe : contexts and functions of a widely used accounting instrument / Tanja Skambraks -- The "paper khipus" of the early Colonial Andes / Manuel Medrano -- Accounting and accountability in precolonial Dahomey, West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe -- Bookeeping without writing : a synthesis / Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman and Douglas Baird. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | 9789042949775 e-book version |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023548252 |
| ISBN | 9789042949768 paperback |
| ISBN | 9042949767 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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