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Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
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Adam FalkensteinAssyriologist; first editor of the Uruk archaic tablets (ATU 1, 1936) · 1906–1966
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Denise Schmandt-BesseratArchaeologist; author of the token theory of the origin of writing · born 1933
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Hans J. NissenArchaeologist of Uruk; co-author of ZATU and Archaic Bookkeeping · born 1935
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Kathryn KelleyAssyriologist; computational work on proto-cuneiform and proto-Elamite sign use
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Peter DamerowHistorian of science; numerical systems and the proto-writing position · 1939–2011
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk
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Piotr SteinkellerAssyriologist (Harvard); reviewer of ZATU and defender of Sumerian readings
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Robert K. EnglundAssyriologist; editor of most of the proto-cuneiform corpus and founder of CDLI; held the language unknown · 1952–2020
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk