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It is important to realise that bullae pre-date any sort of writing. Originally, they could not contain enough information to form a full contract.
The tokens inside represented quantities of goods, such as sheep or jars of oil. They were used by Mesopotamian accountants, and one use might well have been just to keep track of temple property. Tokens were ...
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If the new information is correct, the great megadrought which seems to have caused the disruption in the eastern mediterranean could have also messed up the weather systems in India as well, which would have forced the migration to the Gangetic plain, which seems to be supported by DNA evidence. This is not an academic paper, therefore I know I have not ...
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