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
"Bookkeeping without Writing : Early Administrative Technologies in Context explores how non-literate systems of information storage were used in the late prehistoric and early historic periods in West Asia, before and alongside writing. The world's earliest known written script, cuneiform...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Bookkeeping without Writing : Early Administrative Technologies in Context explores how non-literate systems of information storage were used in the late prehistoric and early historic periods in West Asia, before and alongside writing. The world's earliest known written script, cuneiform, emerged as the bureaucratic tool of administration in the city-states of south Mesopotamia during the late fourth millennium BC. The invention of writing had a profound impact on daily life, as it enabled the efficient management and control of agricultural production, craft production, labour, and rations as wages. Writing has traditionally been viewed as one of the hallmarks of 'civilisation', alongside features such as permanent urban settlements, monumental architecture, social hierarchy and the presence of political and religious institutions. Writing is seen as necessary for complex society to operate and succeed, yet is this really the case ? Are there alternatives ? Non-written forms of information storage and transmission are known in West Asia from the Late Neolithic (ca 6000 BC) onwards. Crucially, they continue to be used, once writing is established and widespread, so cannot be dismissed as simple, primitive and ineffective forms of administration simply supplanted by writing. In other world regions and time-periods, a variety of non-literate forms of information storage are known. There are large, successful, and complex societies which do not use writing at all, instead thriving with alternative forms of information storage and transmission. This multidisciplinary book brings together papers from various specialists to explore how non-literate forms of information storage were used in West Asia from the Late Neolithic, and why they persisted into the first millennium BC. [...]." |
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CONTENTS List of conference speakers. vu Foreword. ix Acknowledgements . ix Section 1: Background 1. Introduction. Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman 2. The Evolutionary Foundations of Neolithic Thought: The invention of words, cognitive fluidity, and objects as cognitive anchors. Steven Mithen 1 17 Section 2: The Late Neolithic 3. Earliest Date for Seals and Sealings in the Near East. Peter Μ. Μ. G. AKKERMANS 4. Accounting for Change? Symbols, replication and information management in the later prehistory of northern Mesopotamia. Stuart Campbell 5. The Origins of Non-Written Administrative Technologies in West Asia: The example of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad. Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman 35 57 77 Section 3: The Early Historic Period 6. The Role of Tokens in Later Mesopotamia. 119 John MacGinnis 7. Sealed Breads and Tax-Free Canopies? Reflections on non-written administrative practices in Hittite
Anatolia. 137 Willemijn Waal Section 4: Historic/Ethnographic Parallels 8. Bookkeeping With and Without Writing in Pharaonic Egypt. Ben Haring 161
VI TABLE OF CONTENTS 9. Tally Sticks in Medieval Europe: Contexts and functions of a widely used accounting instrument. Tanja SKAMBRAKS 10. The ‘Paper Khipus’ of the Early Colonial Andes. Manuel Medrano 11. Accounting and Accountability in Precolonial Dahomey, West Africa. J. Cameron Monroe 12. Bookkeeping Without Writing: A synthesis. Lucy E. BENNISON-CHAPMAN and Douglas Baird 179 201 231 263 |
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CONTENTS List of conference speakers. vu Foreword. ix Acknowledgements . ix Section 1: Background 1. Introduction. Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman 2. The Evolutionary Foundations of Neolithic Thought: The invention of words, cognitive fluidity, and objects as cognitive anchors. Steven Mithen 1 17 Section 2: The Late Neolithic 3. Earliest Date for Seals and Sealings in the Near East. Peter Μ. Μ. G. AKKERMANS 4. Accounting for Change? Symbols, replication and information management in the later prehistory of northern Mesopotamia. Stuart Campbell 5. The Origins of Non-Written Administrative Technologies in West Asia: The example of Late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad. Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman 35 57 77 Section 3: The Early Historic Period 6. The Role of Tokens in Later Mesopotamia. 119 John MacGinnis 7. Sealed Breads and Tax-Free Canopies? Reflections on non-written administrative practices in Hittite
Anatolia. 137 Willemijn Waal Section 4: Historic/Ethnographic Parallels 8. Bookkeeping With and Without Writing in Pharaonic Egypt. Ben Haring 161
VI TABLE OF CONTENTS 9. Tally Sticks in Medieval Europe: Contexts and functions of a widely used accounting instrument. Tanja SKAMBRAKS 10. The ‘Paper Khipus’ of the Early Colonial Andes. Manuel Medrano 11. Accounting and Accountability in Precolonial Dahomey, West Africa. J. Cameron Monroe 12. Bookkeeping Without Writing: A synthesis. Lucy E. BENNISON-CHAPMAN and Douglas Baird 179 201 231 263 |
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| spelling | Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten 1. 2021 Online Postdoctoral Research Fellow Annual Conference Verfasser (DE-588)1322458340 aut 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 Bookkeeping without writing: early administrative technologies in context Leiden Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten 2023 Leuven Peeters VI, 279 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten 27 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier PIHANS 134 Résumés des chapitres en anglais "Bookkeeping without Writing : Early Administrative Technologies in Context explores how non-literate systems of information storage were used in the late prehistoric and early historic periods in West Asia, before and alongside writing. The world's earliest known written script, cuneiform, emerged as the bureaucratic tool of administration in the city-states of south Mesopotamia during the late fourth millennium BC. The invention of writing had a profound impact on daily life, as it enabled the efficient management and control of agricultural production, craft production, labour, and rations as wages. Writing has traditionally been viewed as one of the hallmarks of 'civilisation', alongside features such as permanent urban settlements, monumental architecture, social hierarchy and the presence of political and religious institutions. Writing is seen as necessary for complex society to operate and succeed, yet is this really the case ? Are there alternatives ? Non-written forms of information storage and transmission are known in West Asia from the Late Neolithic (ca 6000 BC) onwards. Crucially, they continue to be used, once writing is established and widespread, so cannot be dismissed as simple, primitive and ineffective forms of administration simply supplanted by writing. In other world regions and time-periods, a variety of non-literate forms of information storage are known. There are large, successful, and complex societies which do not use writing at all, instead thriving with alternative forms of information storage and transmission. This multidisciplinary book brings together papers from various specialists to explore how non-literate forms of information storage were used in West Asia from the Late Neolithic, and why they persisted into the first millennium BC. [...]." Vor- und Frühgeschichte gnd rswk-swf Informationsspeicherung (DE-588)4332067-3 gnd rswk-swf Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1 gnd rswk-swf Société primitive / Proche-Orient Économie préhistorique / Proche-Orient Signes et symboles préhistoriques / Proche-Orient Écriture cunéiforme / Proche-Orient (DE-588)1071861417 Konferenzschrift 05.02.2021-06.02.2021 Leiden gnd-content Alter Orient, historisch (DE-2581)TH000003384 gbd Buchhaltung (DE-2581)TH000006946 gbd Naher Osten (DE-588)4068878-1 g Informationsspeicherung (DE-588)4332067-3 s Vor- und Frühgeschichte z DE-604 Bennison-Chapman, Lucy E. 1980- (DE-588)1322774374 edt Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten (DE-588)1004930-7 isb Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 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 978-90-429-4977-5 (DE-604)BV049601305 PIHANS 134 (DE-604)BV017132197 134 Digitalisierung BSB München - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=034921761&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| title | 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 |
| title_alt | Bookkeeping without writing: early administrative technologies in context |
| title_auth | 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 |
| title_exact_search | 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 |
| title_exact_search_txtP | 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | Bookkeeping without writing |
| title_sort | 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 |
| title_sub | 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 |
| topic | Informationsspeicherung (DE-588)4332067-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | Informationsspeicherung Naher Osten Konferenzschrift 05.02.2021-06.02.2021 Leiden |
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