{"product_id":"9781009614573","title":"Proto-Elamite : Writing and Society in Early Iran - Kathryn Kelley","description":"Proto-Elamite is one of the world's earliest scripts and it remains only very partly deciphered. Excavations have uncovered c. 1,700 clay tablets from Iran, dating c. 3300-2900 BCE. The tablets use a complex system involving hundreds of symbols to count commodities, people, and institutions. Despite holding a privileged place in the history of writing, the study of proto-Elamite falls outside modern disciplinary boundaries and has received very limited scholarly attention since its discovery over a century ago. Nonetheless, a handful of scholars have shown that there is much we can learn about proto-Elamite and the people who used it, especially by taking interdisciplinary approaches. The ongoing decipherment project combines mathematics, a range of comparative studies, and a sustained effort to digitize the corpus and apply new tools from computer science.","brand":"Kathryn Kelley","offers":[{"title":"122 pages, Worked examples or Exercises \/ 31\/08\/2026 \/ BCE to c 500 CE","offer_id":57415357399415,"sku":"9781009614573","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781009614573","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}