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Download full textSchmandt-Besserat, Denise – 1984
Writing appears to have originated from a modest system of counters or tokens used to keep track of economic goods and transactions. This system of recording appeared in 8000 B. C. in Mesopotamia, or what is now Iraq. The tokens' consistency in shape and size during the next 4,000 years attests to the stability of the agricultural economy and way…
Descriptors: Ancient History, Communication (Thought Transfer), Intellectual History, Middle Eastern History
