This Blog, the second in a series of three, presents a very brief overview of a conference held at Warwick University in 2017 – Tokens: Culture, Connections, Communities. The series of talks took the concept of tokens back to the early classical civilisations and with the work of Denise Schmandt-Besserat to the neolithic and the first appearance of locally organised societies, record keeping and the beginnings of writing.
A clay envelope dating from 5500-4500 BC is probed using 3-D X-ray tomography to allow the tokens inside to be imaged, along with the maker’s thumbprint in the clay.
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