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How Writing Came About - Softcover

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise

 
9780292777040: How Writing Came About
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0292777043 ISBN 13: 9780292777040
Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Denise Schmandt-Besserat is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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 anarchaic 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.

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Verlag
University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0292777043
ISBN 13 
9780292777040
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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