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How Writing Came About
Title:
How Writing Came About
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
$26.00

An abridged version of the two volume work Before Writing comprising Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. Here 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...

Second hand Paperback
Stock: 
1
ISBN: 
9780292777040
SKU:
55031