TY - SER AU - Hans J. Nissen AU - Peter Damerow AU - Robert K. Englund AU - Paul Larsen CY - Chicago, IL LA - English N1 - Contents: Environmental Factors The Chronological Framework The Early History of Babylonia Prehistoric Means of Administration The Emergence of Writing Archaic Numerical Sign Systems The Archaic Bookkeeping System The Administrative Activities of Kushim The Development of Bookkeeping in the Third Millennium B.C. Surveying and Administrating Fields Bookkeeping on Labor Bookkeeping on Animal Husbandry The Education and Profession of the Scribe The Titles and Professions List The Development of Cuneiform Script The Development of Arithmetic Computer-Assisted Decipherment and Editing of Archaic Texts PB - University of Chicago Press PP - Chicago, IL PY - 1994 SN - 9780226586595 EP - 169 pp. TI - Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East ER -