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Les 'jetons' non urukiens et l'echange des femmesessay 1989 • Forest, Jean-Daniel & Ubaid Symposium (1988 : Helsingør, Denmark)
Ubaid • Middle East > Middle East
In this article, Forest examines 90 tokens (jettons)of earthernware spheres, cones, discs, sticks and plates, all with incisions, found in the graves of a small village at tell Abada. He suggests that they mark dowry exchanges, most likely animals....