The first writing script invention as history and process

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Houston, Stephen D. (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2004
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overture / Stephen D. Houston
  • The possibilty and actuality of writing / John S. Robertson
  • Writing systems: a case study in cultural evolution / Bruce G. Trigger
  • Bablonian beginnings: the origin of the cuneiform writing system in comparative perspective / Jerrold S. Cooper
  • The state of decipherment of proto-Elamite / Robert K. Englund
  • The earliest Egyptian writing: development, context, purpose / John Baines
  • Anyang writing and the origin of the Chinese writing system / Robert W. Bagley
  • Writing on shell and bone in Shang China / Françoise Bottéro
  • Reasons for runes / Henrik Williams
  • Writing in early Mesoamerica / Stephen D. Houston
  • Beyond writing / Elizabeth Hill Boone
  • Final thoughts on first writing / Stephen D. Houston.