12078
Accession Number
33388
Title Of Article Chaper
Decipherment of the Earliest Tablets
Title Of Journal Book
Science
Volume
211
Pages
283-285
Collation
3 p. : ills.
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographic references
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
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.
Keywords
clay;tablet;writing;token
pub_id
12078