# Kelley 2026: Proto-Elamite: Proto-Elamite Writing and Society in Early Iran

> Kathryn Kelley, 2026. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The current overview of the Proto-Elamite corpus and research programme.

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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.

**Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite** Bookdoi: **[10.1017/9781009614559](https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009614559)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

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

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Kathryn Kelley](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/people/FIG0D1P8YA03C7B/kathryn-kelley)

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[Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite)

The mystery article

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[Does Proto-Elamite record a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-elamite/questions/QST0D1P9270104G/does-proto-elamite-record-a-language)

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## Cite it

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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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