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Title: How Writing Came about
Author: Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Dimensions: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d
Product Weight: 0.8 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780292777040
Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001In 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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Title: How Writing Came about
Author: Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Dimensions: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d
Product Weight: 0.8 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780292777040
Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001In 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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Title: How Writing Came about
Author: Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 207
Dimensions: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d
Product Weight: 0.8 lbs.
Language: English
ISBN: 9780292777040
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