Record books before writing

An archaeological excavation in southeast Turkey has discovered a large number of clay cards that scientists believe are used as a pre-systematic commercial record for writing. copy.

Especially, these clay tags, when dated, fall into the early period of the characters. So maybe the clay card and the original rudimentary characters complement each other to record the books together.

These clay tags are made in a simple form, which is said to be very effective for the rudimentary pre-historic bookkeeping system.

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One theory suggests that different shapes of cards represent different types of goods such as: quantity of cattle, cereals . exchanged and then sealed with clay. It can basically be considered as a very early form of commercial contracts.

This clay card system was used around 3,000 BC, the clay cards had some symbols engraved on them. Then when the cuneiform character was born, the way of writing with clay cards quickly disappeared.

However, the excavation of artifacts in Ziyaret Tepe in the ancient city of Tušhan, an Neo-Assyria administrative unit showed that clay cards were not immediately eliminated but still used for a long time to complement the initial writing character.

Physorg magazine quoted Dr. John MacGinnis as the lead researcher, in fact, in a literate society there are still different channels of information, complementary and not all commodity exchange traders are New literacy forms so cuneiform characters and clay cards coexist for some time are not strange.

More than 300 clay cards were found in two rooms of a building that MacGinnis described as ancient storage and delivery areas.