The article offers new insights on archival management at Ebla (Syria, ca. 2350 BCE), approaching the subject from the point of view of complexity studies, data mining and palaeo-archivistics. The study challenges current ideas, in that it demonstrates that ancient archival procedures were certainly complex, but not complicated, in the sense that a small amount of rules allowed ease of access to information, storage, and transmission of cultural memory within the local cultural environment.
Complexity and the Ebla Archives
Massimo Maiocchi
2024
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The article offers new insights on archival management at Ebla (Syria, ca. 2350 BCE), approaching the subject from the point of view of complexity studies, data mining and palaeo-archivistics. The study challenges current ideas, in that it demonstrates that ancient archival procedures were certainly complex, but not complicated, in the sense that a small amount of rules allowed ease of access to information, storage, and transmission of cultural memory within the local cultural environment.
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