Bookkeeping Without Writing: Early administrative technologies in context - 05-06/02/2021, (Online)
This conference brings together varied specialists to explore how non-literate systems of information storage were used in the Near East from the late Neolithic, and why they persisted into the first millennium BC
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 05-06/02/2021
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Online (via Zoom)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr. Lucy Bennison-Chapman
INFO: web - NINO-Conference@hum.leidenuniv.nl
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE:
AquÃ/here/qui Deadline: 04/02/2021
Gratis/free/gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Participants and papers
Convenor: Dr. Lucy E. Bennison-Chapman, NINO Postdoctoral Fellow
Name and affiliation (alphabetical)Paper title (or topic)
Prof. Peter Akkermans Leiden UniversityDating the Sealing: Revisiting Tell Sabi Abyad and the Case for Property Control in Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamia
Prof. Douglas Baird, University of Liverpool(Chair)
Dr. Lucy Bennison-Chapman (organiser), NINO, Leiden UniversityThe Origins of Non-Written Administrative Technologies in the Near East: The example of late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad
Prof. Stuart Campbell, University of ManchesterAccount for Change? Symbols and information management in the later prehistory of northern Mesopotamia
Dr. Ben Haring,Leiden UniversityScribal and Non-scribal Modes of Visual Communication in Egypt (Deir el Medina)
Dr. John MacGinnis, British Museum & University of CambridgeToken Accounting in the Assyrian Empire
Manuel Medrano, University of St AndrewsCords in Court: The paper khipus of early colonial Andean legal proceedings
Prof. Steven Mithen, University of Reading Symbolic Thought, Cognition, Prehistoric Mind: The relationships between words, thought and cultural evolution
Prof. J. Cameron Monroe, University of California, Santa Cruz The Dahomean Royal Palace Sphere: Administrative Tactics in a West African State of the Atlantic Era
Dr. Tanja Skambraks, University of MannheimTally Sticks in Medieval Europe
Dr. Christina Tsouparopoulou, University of CambridgeSeals, bullae and other graphic devices used in late third millennium Mesopotamian administration
Dr. Willemijn Waal, NINO, Leiden University The Role of Bullae within the Hittite Administration Revisited
Prof. Christopher Woods, University of Chicago (4MBC bullae, tokens and writing)