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Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman, “Reconsidering ‘Tokens’: The Neolithic Origins of Accounting or Multifunctional, Utilitarian Tools?” (2019)

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Origin of Writing

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Corrective reassessment of whether Neolithic tokens had a single accounting function

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Origin of Writing

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The catalog does not support one Sumerian invention of writing spreading to every later writing system.

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Uruk proto-cuneiform is among the earliest robust writing evidence, while the boundary between notation, proto-writing, and writing remains debated.

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Mesopotamian proto-cuneiform is one of the earliest writing traditions.

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Calling the earliest Uruk notation simply “Sumerian writing” can obscure debated language attribution and the notation-to-writing boundary.

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The earliest evidence is mainly administrative.

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