ANTH 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Eridu, Warka Vase, Shuruppak
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In places with centralized group area likely something later called an oikos by the. Some oikos places grow into places like uruk which is more of an actual town where there is evidence for differentiated access to wealth and resources. Ea which translates to lord of earth. enki plays big role in flood myths. Know it"s enki because of symbols and offerings of fish bones. In each of the niches in temples eventually they start to record who was making the offerings, the development of writing by priests. Starts with tokens which are really just abstract symbols which stand for particular commodities like sheep wheat cattle barley. later tokens punched with holes so they could be put on strings to keep track of them. The sumerian writing system is based on the recording of economic interactions. our ancestors of capitalistic perspective. Sumerians not the only ones who develop writing but they were the first ones to do so.
