The role and function of 'tokens' and sealing practices in the Neolithic of the Near East : the question of early recording systems, symbolic storage, precursors to writing, gaming, or monitoring devices in the world's first villages
The Neolithic in the Near East was a crucial transitional period, evidencing the appearance of the world’s first permanent farming villages, alongside significant changes in social structure, subsistence and artistic expression. This thesis focuses on an enigmatic artefact type; small, geometric cla...
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University of Liverpool
2014
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.706567 |