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

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