Graeber / Wengrow (307) : "Some details of the way [...] Sumerian temples organized themselves are still with us, including the quantifcation of human labour into standard workloads and units of time"
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> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)
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