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Denise Schmandt-Besserat - How Writing Came About, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

How Writing Came About

Av Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1997-02-01
  • Mått: 178 x 254 x 13 mm
  • Vikt: 399 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 207
  • Förlag: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN: 9780292777040
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Denise Schmandt-Besserat is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Discoveries in the history of writing are rare, but Denise Schmandt-Besserat made one in realizing that phonetic writing in the West descends not from pictography, a view repeated everywhere, but from abstract, nonphonetic, mostly noniconographic accounting tokens used in Neolithic farming communities of the Near East beginning from about 8000 B.C. A condensation of volume I of Before Writing ...this book is a perfect production, utterly lucid, thoughtfully illustrated, and thoroughly convincing. (American Journal of Archaeology)

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