# Hans J. Nissen 1993: Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

> Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, 1993. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The standard account of proto-cuneiform (Uruk IV-III…

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# Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East

Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, Robert K. Englund, 1993.

**Vinča signs** Book0

## What it's used for here

The standard account of proto-cuneiform (Uruk IV-III, c. 3300-3000 BC): about 5,000 tablets with numerical systems, commodity signs, totals and lexical lists, understood through their arithmetic although the language is uncertain. Used here as the test case of what a genuine early administrative script looks like against which the Vinča material is measured. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-58659-6.

## Cited by on this site 2 records

[Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9BZ5YRZX/proto-cuneiform-the-one-well-studied-proto-writing-is-an)

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[The Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)

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Hans J. Nissen, Peter Damerow, & Robert K. Englund (1993). Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East. https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Nissen+Damerow+Englund+Archaic+Bookkeeping
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