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Proto-Elamite: Proto-Elamite Writing and Society in Early Iran

Kathryn Kelley, 2026. Elements in Writing in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press.

A short survey of Proto-Elamite: about 1,700 tablets of about 3300 to 2900 BC recording commodities, people and institutions; the state of the partial decipherment and the case for combining mathematics, comparison, digitisation and computation. Published online 18 July 2026.

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The current overview of the Proto-Elamite corpus and research programme.

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Kelley, K. (2026). Proto-Elamite: Proto-Elamite Writing and Society in Early Iran. Elements in Writing in the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009614559
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