How a group spreads

Catalogued

Clay accounting tokens

Made by
Neolithic Fertile Crescent peoples
Year
8000 BCE
Field
Physical objects
Kind
Physical object
Room
How a group spreads — Placed by reading its description, not yet studied
Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

5 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Schmandt-Besserat 1992, Before Writing

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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