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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Robert K. Englund

Assyriologist specializing in archaic cuneiform bookkeeping and proto-literate administration.

Why this matters

Englund makes early tablets speak as management tools—legibility long before modern bureaucracy.

Focus in observatory

Works

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Archaic

Nissen, Hans J., Peter Damerow, and Robert K. Englund. *Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East*. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 19

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