An edition of How writing came about (1996)

How writing came about

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An edition of How writing came about (1996)

How writing came about

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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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How writing came about
1996, University of Texas Press
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"Abridged edition of Before writing, volume I: From counting to cuneiform"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
737/.3/0956
Library of Congress
CJ4867 .S364 1996, CJ4867.S364 1996

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xii, 193 p. :
Number of pages
193

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OL805280M
Internet Archive
howwritingcameab00schm
ISBN 10
0292777043
LCCN
95041829
OCLC/WorldCat
33819339
Wikidata
Q57532821
Library Thing
1795016
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1217888

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