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Schmandt-Besserat, Denise

 
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Synopsis

Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001

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 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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À propos de l'auteur

Denise Schmandt-Besserat is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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ISBN 10 :  0292777108 ISBN 13 :  9780292777101
Editeur : Univ of Texas Pr, 1997
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