[Tax-chick]

Accounting comes first, thousands of years of people scratching in ledgers.

"The earliest written records" have been pushed back in time since I was a college student in the 80s ... but they're still public-works accounting records.

Narrative can be "live" in a highly successful society, but inventory has to be concrete.

[Paladin2]

"inventory has to be concrete."

Does PRyno know this?

[nickcarraway]

Did we have writing back in the ‘80s? I can’t remember.