How Writing Came About (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for How Writing Came About In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing--derived from an ar...
Full description- Publisher: University of Texas Press
- Published: 01 June 1997
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
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- Categories: Sculpture | Palaeography (history Of Writing) | Middle Eastern History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Archaeology | Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Seals (numismatics)
- ISBN 13: 9780292777040 ISBN 10: 0292777043
- Sales rank: 273,863
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Full description for How Writing Came About
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing--derived from an archaic counting device.How Writing Came About draws material from both volumes to present Schmandt-Besserat's theory for a wide public and classroom audience. Based on the analysis and interpretation of a selection of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 sites in Iran, Iraq, the Levant, and Turkey, it documents the immediate precursor of the cuneiform script.
