# Kathryn Kelley 2018: Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300–2900 BC) > Kathryn Kelley, 2018. 9 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Oxford DPhil (supervisors Dahl and Collins). A sign-by-sign study of the gender and age… Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFQR2G4EYKD/gender-age-and-labour-organization-in-the-earliest-texts Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform)Kathryn Kelley 2018 **0** # Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300–2900 BC) Kathryn Kelley, 2018. **Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk** Thesis0 ## What it's used for here Oxford DPhil (supervisors Dahl and Collins). A sign-by-sign study of the gender and age signs in proto-cuneiform and proto-Elamite. Finds that the 'herded humans' accounts Englund 2009 drew his names from are explicitly recorded in less than 1% of proto-cuneiform texts, and that later scholars over-generalised from them. Used here to bound how representative the archaic name set is. ## Cited by on this site 9 records [Archaic names outside the worker lists, including under title headers, also lack the Sumerian name profile](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DG2EPACMYJ4/archaic-names-outside-the-worker-lists-including-under-title) Evidence EVD [EN-name frequency differs between archives, not between single tablets](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFVQBQ58B0S/en-name-frequency-differs-between-archives-not-between) Evidence EVD [Englund's Sumerian name elements are not rarer in the archaic names than elsewhere in the corpus](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFQSJB59Z1F/englunds-sumerian-name-elements-are-not-rarer-in-the-archaic) Evidence EVD [Genuine Sumerian names carry these elements three to four times as often as the archaic names](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFVQADHXGK8/genuine-sumerian-names-carry-these-elements-three-to-four) Evidence EVD [Matched on social class, Sumerian dependents' names still differ sharply from the Uruk III names](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DG2CQY8YJDD/matched-on-social-class-sumerian-dependents-names-still) Evidence EVD [The EN enrichment is confined to the unprovenanced archives and absent from the excavated ones](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFQST9NGVHJ/the-en-enrichment-is-confined-to-the-unprovenanced-archives) Evidence EVD [The Sumerian name profile is absent in Uruk III and fully present by Archaic Ur, as this answer predicts](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFVQBFT6XD1/the-sumerian-name-profile-is-absent-in-uruk-iii-and-fully) Evidence EVD [The archaic names fall far short of the Sumerian name profile that Early Dynastic names show](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform/evidence/EVD0DFVQQAH0AHS/the-archaic-names-fall-far-short-of-the-sumerian-name) Evidence EVD [Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-cuneiform) The mystery article MYS ## Cite it ``` Kathryn Kelley (2018). Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300–2900 BC). https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:afa3362e-1182-43aa-a2b9-d675bd8c585a ``` [Find it at ora.ox.ac.uk](https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:afa3362e-1182-43aa-a2b9-d675bd8c585a) Key **SRC** 0DFQR2G4EYKD Kind Thesis Rights The publisher's Kept 2 Nov 2026, for editors Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DFQR2G4EYKD/gender-age-and-labour-organization-in-the-earliest-texts/csl.json)