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How Writing Came About
Engelsk Paperback
How Writing Came About
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
207
ISBN-13:
9780292777040
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0292777043
Udg. Dato:
1 feb 1997
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
176mm
Højde:
255mm
Forlag:
University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato:
1 feb 1997
Forfatter(e):
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