Anna Margherita Jasink

Judith Weingarten

Silvia Ferrara

This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script  and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate  societies. Over the last 30 years, the domain of scribes and bureaucrats has become much  better known. Our goal now is to reach below the √©lite and scribal levels to interface with  non-scribal operations conducted by people of the ¬´middling¬ª sort. Who made these  marks and to what purpose? Did they serve private or (semi-) official roles in Bronze  Age Aegean society? The comparative study of such practices in the contemporary East  (Cyprus, Anatolia, the Levant, and Egypt) can shed light on sub-elite activities in the  Aegean and also provide evidence for cultural and economic exchange networks

Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas

Anna Margherita Jasink, Judith Weingarten, Silvia Ferrara

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