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SUMMARY:States of Clay: scientific and digital approaches to the beginning
 s of bureaucracy - Dr Amy Richardson (University of Reading)
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CONTACT:Lucy Emanuel
DESCRIPTION:The early state was underpinned by a bureaucratic system of co
 ntrols mediated in clay\, which included tablets\, sealings\, tags\, hollo
 w clay balls and tokens. Through investigations of clay use across the bur
 eaucratic corpus and the demographics of participants in these practices\,
  we can shed light on the people who participated in early administrative 
 activities in the late fourth and early third millennium BCE. Here\, we in
 troduce new evidence from geochemical and fingerprint analysis of administ
 rative objects from Mesopotamia\, 3700-2700 BCE\, which reveals organisati
 onal variability between communities engaged in shared systems of practice
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 that you will need to be logged into a Cambridge account to attend on this
  occasion. Please contact Lucy Emanuel (le301) if you have difficulties ac
 cessing the meeting on the day.
LOCATION:McDonald Seminar Room\, Department of Archaeology
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