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Prologue: What Are the Roots of Civilization?
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Jack J. Finkelstein, “Some New Misharum Material and Its Implications,” in Assyriological Studies, No. 16 (1965), pp. 233–246.
Alexander Marshack, The Roots of Civilization (New York: 1972).
Eva von Dassow, “Proclaim Debt Amnesty Throughout All the Land? A Biblical Solution to a Present-Day Problem,” The Conversation, July 26, 2022.
1. How the Archaic Kosmos Integrated Nature and Society
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Anthony F. Aveni, “Tropical Archaeoastronomy,” Science, Vol. 213 (July 10, 1981), pp. 161–171.
Photeine P. Bourboulis, “Ancient Festivals of ‘Saturnalia’ Type,” Hellenika Periodikon Suggramma Hetaireias Makedonikon Spoudon Parartema, Vol. 16 (Thessaloniki: 1964).
Igor M. Diakonoff, “Father Adam,” Archiv für Orientforschung, Vol. 19 (1982), pp. 16–20.
G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), pp. 157–158.
Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return (New York: 1959 [1954]).
Mircea Eliade, Myth and Reality (New York: 1963).
Theodor Gaster, Thespis: Ritual, Myth and Drama in the Ancient Near East (New York: 1950).
Louis Gernet, The Anthropology of Ancient Greece (Baltimore: 1981).
Morris Jastrow, “Sun and Saturn,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 7 (1909), pp. 163–178.
W.G. Lambert, “Origins in Ancient Mesopotamian Society,” 26th International Congress of Orientalists, 1964, Proceedings, II (New Delhi: 1968), pp. 33ff.
Bronislaw Malinowski, Argonauts of the Western Pacific (New York: 1922).
Alexander Marshack, “Epipaleolithic, Early Neolithic Iconography” (1981), International Symposium on “The Culture of Lepenski Vir and the Problems of the Formation of Neolithic Cultures in Southeastern Europe.”
Alexander Marshack, The Roots of Civilization (New York: 1972).
Alexander Marshack, “On the Dangers of Serpents in the Mind,” Current Anthropology, Vol. 26 (1985): pp. 139–152.
Alexander Marshack, “North American Indian Lunar-Year Calendar Stick,” 1984 mimeo.
Agnes Kirsopp Michels, The Calendar of the Roman Republic (Princeton: 1967).
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Balaji Mundkur, The Cult of the Serpent: An Interdisciplinary Survey of its Manifestations and Origins (Albany: 1983).
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Denise Schmandt-Besserat, “From Tokens to Tablets: A Reevaluation of the So-Called ‘Numerical Tablets,’” Visible Language, Vol. 15 (1981), pp. 321–344.
G. Elliot Smith, The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester: 1919).
Elizabeth Douglas van Buren, The Flowing Vase and the God with Streams (Berlin: 1933).
Carlo Zaccagnini, “Aspects of Ceremonial Exchange in the Near East during the late second millennium BC,” in Michael Rowlands, Mogens Larsen, and Kristian Kristiansen (eds.), Center and Periphery in the Ancient World (Cambridge: 1987), pp. 57–65.
2. The Shift From Lunar to Solar Calendars and Counting
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Aletta Biersack, “The Logic of Misplaced Concreteness: Paiela Body Counting and the Nature of the Primitive Mind,” American Anthropological Association, American Anthropologist, Vol. 84, Issue 4 (January 1982), pp. 811–829.
August Böckh, Metrologische Untersuchungen (Berlin: 1838).
J. Brandis, Münz, Mass, und Gewichtswesen (1866).
V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History (New York: 1946).
Carlo M. Cipolla, Clocks and Culture, 1300–1700 (New York: 1977).
Marshall Clagett, Ancient Egyptian Science, II: Calendars, Clocks, and Astronomy (Philadelphia: 1995).
Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, History of the Hour (Chicago: 1996).
Louis Gernet, The Anthropology of Ancient Greece (Baltimore: 1981).
Otto Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte (Berlin: 1906).
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (New York: 1985) [1981].
Keith Gordon Irwin, Man Learns to Measure (London: 1962).
Alexander Marshack, The Roots of Civilization (New York: 1972).
Karl Menninger, Number Words and Number Symbols. A Cultural History of Numbers (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1969 [1958]).
Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (2nd ed., 1957) (New York: 1969).
Richard A. Parker and Otto Neugebauer, Egyptian Astronomical Texts, 3 vols. (Providence: 1960–1969).
W.M. Flinders Petrie, “Weights and Measures,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911), Vol. 27, pp. 480–488.
Joseph T. Shipley, The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots (Baltimore: 1984).
G. Elliot Smith, The Evolution of the Dragon (Manchester: 1919).
Charles Warren, Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly (April, June, October 1899).
3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Alfonso Archi, “Reflections on the System of Weights from Ebla,” in Cyrus H. Gordon, Gary A. Rendsburg, and Nathan H. Winter (eds.), Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language, Vol. I (Winona Lake, Indiana: 1987), pp. 47–90.
H.O. Arnold-Forster, The Coming of the Kilogram (London: 1898).
Miriam Balmuth, “Monetary Forerunners of Coinage in Phoenicia and Palestine in Antiquity,” in A. Kindler (ed.), The Patterns of Monetary Development in Phoenicia and Palestine in Antiquity (Jerusalem: 1967).
Miriam Balmuth, “Remarks on the Appearance of the Earliest Coins,” in David Gordon Mitten, John Griffiths Pedley, and Jane Ayer Scott (eds.), Studies Presented to George M.A. Hanfmann (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1971), pp. 1–7.
Thomas Wight Beale, “Bevelled Rim Bowls and Their Implications for Change and Economic Organization in the Later Fourth Millennium BC,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 4 (October 1978), pp. 289–313.
Émile Benveniste, Indo-European Language and Society (Coral Gables, Florida: 1973).
A.E. Berriman, Historical Metrology (New York: 1953).
August Böckh, Metrologische Untersuchungen (Berlin: 1838).
J. Brandis, Münz, Mass, und Gewichtswesen (1866).
Christopher Butler, Number Symbolism (New York: 1970).
Giorgio R. Castellino, Two Šulgi Hymns (Rome: 1972).
John Chadwick, “Life in Mycenaean Greece,” in Scientific American (ed.), Hunters, Farmers, and Civilizations: Old World Archaeology (San Francisco: 1978).
V. Gordon Childe, What Happened in History (New York: 1946).
Jerrold S. Cooper, Sumerian and Akkadian Royal Inscriptions, Vol. I (New Haven: 1986) (American Oriental Society, Translation Series, Vol. I).
Peter Damerow and Robert K. Englund, “Die Zahlzeichensysteme der Archaischen Texte aus Uruk,” in M.W. Green and Hans J. Nissen, Zeichenliste der Archaischen Texte aus Uruk (Berlin: 1987) (ATU 2), pp. 165–166.
I.M. Diakonoff, “The Structure of Near Eastern Society before the Middle of the 2nd Millennium BC,” Oikumene, Vol. 3 (1982), pp. 7–100.
I.M. Diakonoff, “Some Reflections on Numerals in Sumerian Towards a History of Mathematical Speculation,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1 (1983), pp. 83–96.
O.A.W. Dilke, Mathematics and Measurement (London: 1987).
H. Flanders Dunbar, Symbolism in Medieval Thought and Its Consummation in the Divine Comedy (New Haven: 1929).
Maria de Jong Ellis, “Simdatu in the Old Babylonian Sources,” Journal of Cuneiform Studies, Vol. 24 (1972), pp. 74–82.
Rosemary Ellison, “Diet in Mesopotamia: The Evidence of the Barley Ration Texts (c. 3000–1400 BC),” Iraq, Vol. 43 (1981), pp. 35–45.
R.K. Englund, “Administrative Timekeeping in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 31 (1988), pp. 121–185.
Maurice H. Farbridge, Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism (London: 1923), pp. 119–139 on the number 7; pp. 136–138 too.
Jack J. Finkelstein, “The Edict of Ammisaduqa: A New Text,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 63 (1969), pp. 45–64.
Henri Frankfort, The Birth of Civilization in the Near East (Chicago: 1969).
Jöran Friberg, The Third Millennium Roots of Babylonian Mathematics (Göteborg, Sweden: 1978–1979).
Jöran Friberg, A Survey of Publications on Sumero-Akkadian Mathematics, Metrology, and Related Matters (1854–1982) (Göteborg, Sweden: 1982).
Jöran Friberg, “Numbers and Measures in the Earliest Written Records,” Scientific American, Vol. 250 (February 1984), pp. 110–118.
I.J. Gelb, “The Ancient Mesopotamian Ration System,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 24 (1965), pp. 230–243.
I.J. Gelb, “The Arua Institution,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 66 (1972), pp. 1–32.
I.J. Gelb, “Measures of Dry and Liquid Capacity,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 102 (1982), pp. 585–590.
Geneviève Guitel, Histoire Comparée des Numérations Écrites (Paris: 1975), see esp. pp. 328f.
Ann C. Gunter (ed.), Investigating Artistic Environments in the Ancient Near East (Washington, D.C.: 1990).
William W. Hallo, Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles: A Philologic and Historical Analysis (New Haven: 1957), AOS Series, Vol. 43.
Vincent Foster Hopper, Medieval Number Symbolism: Its Sources, Meaning, and Influence on Thought and Expression (New York: 1938).
Georges Ifrah, From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (New York: 1985) [1981].
Keith Gordon Irwin, Man Learns to Measure (London: 1962).
Thorkild Jacobsen, The Harps that Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation (New Haven: 1987).
Bart Jordan, “Early Calendrical Art Re-Created: A Partial Catalogue,” New England Antiquities Research Association, Journal, Vol. 19, Issue 70 (1984), p. 115.
Herbert Arthur Klein, The Science of Measurement: A Historical Survey (New York: 1974).
Paul Koschaker, “Zur staatlichen Wirtschaftsverwaltung in altbabylonischer Zeit,” Zeitschrift für Assyriologie, Vol. 47 (1942), pp. 135ff.
Samuel Noah Kramer and John Maier, Myths of Enki, the Crafty God (Oxford: 1989).
Samuel Noah Kramer, “The Ur-Nammu Law Code: Who Was Its Author?” Orientalia, Vol. 52 (1983), pp. 453–456.
Fritz R. Kraus, Königliche Verfügungen In Altbabylonischer Zeit (Leiden: 1984).
Witold Kula, Measures and Men (Princeton: 1986).
Paul Lafargue, Social and Philosophical Studies (Chicago: 1906).
Maurice Lambert, “Textes commerciaux de Lagash,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 47 (1953), pp. 37–69 and pp. 105–120.
Maurice Lambert, “La naissance de la bureaucratie,” Revue Historique, Vol. 224 (1960), pp. 1–26.
Maurice Lambert, “La premier triomphe de la bureaucratie,” Revue Historique, Vol. 225 (1961a), pp. 21–46.
Maurice Lambert, “Recherches sur la vie ouvriers,” Archiv Orientalni, Vol. 29 (1961b), pp. 427–438.
Maurice Lambert, “L’Usage de l’argent-métal a Lagash au temps de la IIIe Dynastie d’Ur,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 57 (1963), pp. 79–92.
Maurice Lambert, “La Guerre entre Urukagina et Lugalzagesi,” Rivista degli studi Orientali, Vol. 41 (1966).
Maurice Lambert, “L’Expansion de Lagash au temps d’Entemena,” Rivista degli studi Orientali, Vol. 47 (1972), pp. 9–13.
Hildegard Lewy, “Marginal Notes on a Recent Volume of Babylonian Mathematical Texts,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 67 (1947), pp. 305–320.
Hildegard Lewy, “Origin and Development of the Sexagesimal System of Numeration,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 69 (1949), pp. 1–11.
V.B. Mainkar, “Metrology in the Indus Civilization,” in B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization (New Delhi: 1984), pp. 141–151.
Alexander Marshack, “North American Indian Calendar Sticks: The Evidence for a Widely Distributed Tradition,” in A.F. Aveni (ed.), World Archaeoastronomy (Cambridge: 1988), pp. 308–324.
Karl Menninger, Number Words and Number Symbols. A Cultural History of Numbers (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1969 [1958]).
Benjamin D. Meritt, The Athenian Year (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1961).
Anton Moortgat, The Art of Ancient Mesopotamia: The Classical Art of the Near East (London: 1969).
M. Müller, “Gold, Silber und Blei als Wertmesser in Mesopotamien während der zweiten Hälfte des 2. Jahrtausends v.u.Z.,” in Diakonoff Festschrift (Warminster: 1982), pp. 270–278.
Gregory Nagy, “Theognis and Megara: A Poet’s Vision of his City,” in Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy (eds.), Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (Baltimore: 1985).
Otto Neugebauer, Mathematical Cuneiform Texts (1945).
Otto Neugebauer, The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (2nd ed., 1957) (New York: 1969).
I.M. Nicholas, “The Function of Bevelled-Rim Bowls: A Case Study at the TUV Mound, Tal-e Malyan, Iran,” Paléorient, Vol. 13 (1987), pp. 61–73.
Hans J. Nissen, The Early History of the Ancient Near East: 9000–2000 BC (Chicago: 1988a).
Hans J. Nissen, Mesopotamia Before 5000 Years (Rome: 1988b).
Leonard R. Palmer, Mycenaeans and Minoans: Aegean Prehistory in the Light of the Linear B Tablets (New York: 1963).
André Parrot, Tello (Paris: 1948).
T.E. Peet, The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (London: 1923).
G. Pettinato, The Archives of Ebla (New York: 1981), pp. 198f.
W.M. Flinders Petrie, “Weights and Measures,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), 1911, Vol. 27, pp. 480–488.
W. Kendrick Pritchett, The Greek State at War, Part I (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 1971).
Margaret Cool Root, The King and Kingship in Achaemenid Art: Essays on the Creation of an Iconography of Empire. Acta Iranica, 3rd series, Vol. 19 (Leiden: 1979).
Denise Schmandt-Besserat, An Archaic Recording System and the Origin of Writing (Malibu: 1977).
A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of Geometry,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 1 (1962a), pp. 488–527.
A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of Counting,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 2 (1962b), pp. 1–40.
A. Seidenberg, “The Origin of Mathematics,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 18 (1978), pp. 301–342.
A. Seidenberg and J. Casey, “The Ritual Origin of the Balance,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 23 (1980), pp. 179–226.
A. Seidenberg, “The Ritual Origin of the Circle and Square,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 25 (1981), pp. 269–327.
Adrian Snodgrass, Architecture, Time and Eternity: Studies in the Stellar and Temporal Symbolism of Traditional Buildings (New Delhi: 1990).
Joseph T. Shipley, The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots (Baltimore: 1984).
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Daniel C. Snell, Ledgers and Prices: Early Mesopotamian Merchant Accounts (New Haven: 1982).
Piotr Steinkeller, “The Renting of Fields in Early Mesopotamia and the Development of the Concept of ‘Interest’ in Sumerian,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 24 (1981).
Robert R. Stieglitz, “Numerical Structuralism and Cosmogony in the Ancient Near East,” Journal of Social and Biological Structures, Vol. 5 (1982), pp. 255–266.
Francois Thureau-Dangin, “Sketch of a History of the Sexagesimal System,” Osiris, Vol. 7 (1939), pp. 95–141.
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E. Douglas van Buren, Symbols of the Gods in Mesopotamian Art, Analecta Orientalia, Vol. 23 (Rome: 1945).
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E. Douglas van Buren, “The Sceptre, its Origin and Significance,” Revue d’Assyriologie, Vol. 50 (1956), pp. 101–103.
B.L. van der Waerden, “On Pre-Babylonian Mathematics I,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Vol. 23 (1980), pp. 1–46.
Karl Veenhof, “Babylonian Expressions for ‘Over/at a Distance of…,’” JEOL, Vol. 27 (1981–1982), pp. 65–75.
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4. Alphanumeric Notation and the Calendrical-Musical Kosmos
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Anton Deimel, Schultexte Aus Fara (Leipzig: 1923).
G.R. Driver, Semitic Writing From Pictograph to Alphabet (Oxford: 1948), p. 157–158.
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B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization (New Delhi: 1984).
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5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord
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Philo of Alexandria, “On the Virtues,” in Philo: In Ten Volumes (And Two Supplementary Volumes), F.H. Colson (tr.), Vol. 8 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1929).
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6. The Distributive Justice of Group Feasts and Banquets
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Marcel Detienne and Jesper Svenbro, “The Feast of the Wolves, or the Impossible City,” in Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant (eds.), The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks (Chicago: 1989), pp. 148–163.
Mary Douglas, “Deciphering a Meal,” in Clifford Geertz (ed.), Myth, Symbol, and Culture (New York: 1971), pp. 61–81.
Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and Its Implications (London: 1970 [1966]).
Jean-Louis Durand, “Greek Animals: Toward a Topology of Edible Bodies,” in Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant (eds.), The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks (Chicago: 1989), pp. 87–118.
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Peter Farb and George Armelagos, Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating (Boston: 1980).
Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy (eds.), Theognis of Megara: Poetry and the Polis (Baltimore: 1985).
Joseph Fontenrose, “The Cult of Apollo and the Games at Delphi,” in Wendy J. Raschke (ed.), The Archaeology of the Olympics (Madison, Wisconsin: 1988), pp. 121–140.
W. Warde Fowler, The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (London: 1899).
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Epilogue: Modern Civilization as the Destruction of Archaic Order
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