Description: How Writing Came About, Paperback by Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, ISBN 0292777043, ISBN-13 9780292777040, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK 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 . - 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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Book Title: How Writing Came About
Number of Pages: 207 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: How Writing Came about
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 1997
Subject: Archaeology
Item Height: 254 mm
Item Weight: 403 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Subject Area: Regional History
Item Width: 178 mm
Format: Paperback
