Word: mesopotamia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tall, burly Pat Benedict, 44, the day begins as early as it did for farmers in Mesopotamia in 8000 B.C. He rises before dawn to pull on boots, blue jeans and work shirt. By 6 a.m. he is breakfasting with some neighbors at the Double D Diner off Interstate 94 outside Sabin, Minn. (pop. 333). For an hour or so, he trades community gossip, argues about politics and drops casual remarks about crops and prices designed to feel out what his fellow farmers are doing without asking them a direct question, which is taboo. Then off to the fields?...
Maling Soong Foundation Lecture: Sheila Winer, Professor of Art, University of Massachusetts on "The Art of the Indus Civilization, Turkmenistan, and Mesopotamia." Open to all. Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...
Archaeologists generally agree that writing first appeared in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. in the form of an elaborate system of symbols that were probably used for keeping temple records. But where did the ancients get the idea for their epochal invention? A University of Texas archaeologist may have at last provided the answer. Denise Schmandt-Besserat has found evidence that writing evolved from a much older record-keeping system that is still used in the Middle East. If her theory is correct, it pushes the roots of writing back at least 5,000 years...
...were toys or pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After comparing the tokens with samples of early writing discovered in Warka, a community in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), she concluded that they were part of a sophisticated system of record keeping that eventually evolved into writing. Said she: 'This is not writing at 8000 B.C., but a totally different process of written communication...
Darwin venerated Dickens and could recite Tom Brown's Schooldays by heart, but his taste in literature reflects his deeply ingrained Victorian sensibilities. Mostly Golf contains a rather moving essay entitle "Dickens in Time of War," written in 1915 before Darwin found himself running an Ordinance Depot in Mesopotamia. Darwin's stories are cluttered with chestnuts of wisdom from stories are cluttered with chestnuts of wisdom from Sam and Tony Weller while the cricket match between Dingley Dell and All Muggleton in the Pickwick Papers was for Darwin the penultimate tribute to the glories of English countrified society...