Gender, age, and labour organization in the earliest texts from Mesopotamia and Iran (c. 3300–2900 BC)

<p>Clay tablets in the Proto-cuneiform script (c. 3300–3000 BC) of ancient Iraq and the Proto-Elamite script (c. 3100–2900 BC) of ancient Iran represent two of the earliest inventions of writing in the world—both of which are only partially deciphered. The separate scripts share only a few sig...