Anthropologists love mundane stuff. It gives them insight in how people actually lived. Ain't nothing more exciting than some ancient Sumerian transaction logs

Anthropologists love mundane stuff. It gives them insight in how people actually lived. Ain't nothing more exciting than some ancient Sumerian transaction logs (http://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-11-number-1/the-significance-of-ancient-mesopotamia-in-accounting-history/ http://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/vo...) to an anthropologist. Here's some pictures of some of the actual tablets: http://library.brown.edu/exhibits/archive/focus/cuneiform/ http://library.brown.edu/exhibits/archive/focus/cuneiform/