How Writing Came About

How Writing Came About

by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 24/02/2022

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An “utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing” book on the origins of the world’s oldest known system of writing (American Journal of Archaeology).


One of American Scientist's Top 100 Books on Science, 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 of this scholarly work to present Schmandt-Besserat’s theory in an abridged version 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.

ISBN:
9780292774865
9780292774865
Category:
Archaeology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
24-02-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of Texas Press

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