Publication Date
Spring 1981
Abstract
In Vol. 3, No. 2 The Accounting Historians Notebook (Fall, 1980) Professor Louis Goldberg expressed the wish to know whether the view that accounting antedated writing would now represent a generally accepted attitude among present day archaeologists and prehistorians. An earlier issue of the Notebook mentioned the work of Professor Denise Schmandt-Besserat of the University of Texas at Austin, who has made significant discoveries in this field. (See, for example, "Reckoning before Writing", Archaeology, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1979), pp. 23-31, and "The Earliest Precursor of Writing", Scientific American, Vol. 238, No. 6, (June 1968).
Recommended Citation
Most, Kenneth S.
(1981)
"Accounting and the invention of writing,"
Accounting Historians Notebook: Vol. 4:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/aah_notebook/vol4/iss1/4