Title: Archives before writing :
Authors: Ferioli, Piera.; Italy.
Date: 1994
Publisher: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Ufficio centrale per i beni archivistici ;
Physical description: 416 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: Tokens: a prehistoric archive system / Denise Schmandt-Besserat (response by Gian Giacomo Fissore) -- Administrative technology and socio-economic complexity at the prehistoric site of Tall-i Bakun, Iran / Abbas Alizadeh (response by Pierre Amiet) -- The functional evidence of seals and sealings of Değirmentepe / Ufuk Esin (response by Mitchell S. Rothman) -- Sceaux et administration à l'époque d'Uruk, à Suse / Pierre Amiet (response by Marcella Frangipane) -- Sealing use and changes in administrative oversight and structure at Tepe Gawra during the fourth millenium B.C. / Mitchell s. Rothman (response by Holly Pittman) -- The record function of clay sealings in early administrative systems as seen from Arslantepe-Malatya / Marcella Frangipane (response by Uruk Esin) -- Archival techniques and methods at Arslantepe / Piera Ferioli, Enrica Fiandra (response by Abbas Alizadeh) -- Towards an understanding of the role of glyptic imagery in the administrative systems of proto-literate Greater Mesopotamia / Holly Pittman (response by Judith Weingarten) Seal imagery and sealing practices in the early Aegean world / Joan Aruz (response by Enrica Fiandra) -- Les systèmes primitifs de contabilité en Crète minoenne / Jean Claude Poursat (response by Denise Schmandt-Besserat) -- The sealing studies in the Middle Bronze Age, I: Karahöyük, II: Phaistos / Judith Weingarten (response by Jean Claude Poursat) -- LMIB Ajia Triada on Crete: sealings and tablets / Thomas G. Palaima (response by Joan Aruz) -- Conceptual development and techniques of organizing documents and archives in some early civilizations / Gian Giacomo Fissore (response by Thomas Palaima) -- Clay sealings from Jebel Barkal in Sudan : survival of an ancient system / Irene Vicentelli Liverani -- The stone tablet registers (Khattâtât) : stone tablets of Jebel el Akhdar in modern Lybia / Daud M. Hallaq -- Les sceaux des grottes du Jebel el Akhdar / Daud M. Hallaq -- Archaeologists and archivists / Elio Lodolini -- Perspectives for the history of archives before writing / Donato Tamblé.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Archival resources--Congresses.; Antiquities--Congresses.; Archives--History--Congresses.; Archives--History--To 500--Congresses.; Eurasia--Antiquities--Congresses.; Seals (Numismatics)--Eurasia--Congresses.; Seals (Numismatics)--History--Congresses.