Record Keeping
Using systems of tokens or impressions on clay to manage surplus goods, livestock, and trade transactions.
Core metadata
- ID: record_keeping
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -8000 (millennium)
- Region: Southwest Asia and other early farming societies
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- Abacus (abacus)
- Banking (Early Forms) (banking_early_forms)
- Barter (barter)
- Boundary Markers & Land Tenure (boundary_markers_land_tenure)
- Bureaucracy (bureaucracy)
- Calendars (calendars)
- Census (census)
- Early Civil Service Examinations (civil_service_examinations_early)
- Classical Historiography (Herodotus, Thucydides) (classical_historiography_herodotus_thucydides)
- Clinical Observation & Diagnosis (clinical_observation_diagnosis)
- Contract Law (contract_law)
- Court Transcript Scribes (court_transcript_scribes)
- Crop Rotation (Three-Field System) (crop_rotation_three_field)
- Crop Rotation (Two-Field System) (crop_rotation_two_field)
- Currency (currency)
- Democracy & Republicanism (democracy_republicanism)
- Early Astronomical Observation (early_astronomy_observation)
- Early Notarial Practice (early_notarial_practice)
- Latifundia (Large-Scale Farming) (latifundia_large_scale_farming)
- Legal Personhood for Institutions (legal_personhood_institutions)
- Early Legal Systems (legal_systems_early)
- Libraries and Archives (libraries_and_archives)
- Logistics & Supply Lines (logistics_supply_lines)
- Manorialism (manorialism)
- Mathematics (mathematics)
- Modern Economics (Keynesian) (modern_economics_keynesian)
- Postal Relay Systems (postal_relay_systems)
- Proto-Writing (proto_writing)
- Public Archives (public_archives)
- Public Education Systems (public_education_systems)
- Public Grain Distribution (public_grain_distribution)
- Quarantine & Public Health Measures (quarantine_public_health_measures)
- Roman Law (roman_law)
- Scribe Schools (scribe_schools)
- Seed Selection (seed_selection)
- Selective Animal Breeding (selective_animal_breeding)
- Standardized Coinage (standardized_coinage)
- State Armories (state_armories)
- State Grain Price Controls (state_grain_price_controls)
- Cadastral Maps (surveyed_cadastral_maps)
- Surveying (surveying)
- Tax Accounting (tax_accounting)
- Taxation and Tribute (taxation_and_tribute)
- Telephone Exchange (telephone_exchange)
- Trade Fairs (trade_fairs)
- Trade Guilds (Collegia) (trade_guilds_collegia)
Fields
Field lanes
- Finance & Markets: Money & Accounting
Node sources
- How to write cuneiform (British Museum, 2020, museum) • Supports: node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 68%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Pottery (pottery) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Pottery provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Tally Marks (tally_marks) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Tally Marks provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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