Year: 1982
Type: article
Abstract: an organized people is counting: how many people are there? how many sheep and goats? how many boats? how many members of this group or circle? Recording the count is also necessary, whether for tax and revenue purposes or for purposes of control. A people need not have a written language to be able to record a count; for example, the people of pre-Columbian Peru, masters of textile arts, used a system of knots on strings or cords to record census and tax information. But many of the oldest known written documents concern
Source: The American Archivist
Author: Trudy Peterson
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2273852121