The 5,000-Year-Old Recipe.

Jackson, Hayes

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ERIC Number: EJ543753

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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The 5,000-Year-Old Recipe.

Jackson, Hayes

Humanities, v18 n1 p42-45 Jan-Feb 1997

Describes a project cataloging some of the earliest writings of humankind found in the Yale Babylonian Collection. The clay tablets convey information from recipes to religious incantations to commercial transactions. Discusses the emergence and practice of early writing and the computerization of these records. (MJP)

Descriptors: Ancient History, Archaeology, Cataloging, Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Food, Grants, Higher Education, Material Culture, Middle Eastern History, Non Western Civilization, Preservation, Social History, Written Language

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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