| #1122288 in Books | Denise Schmandt Besserat | 1997-01-01 | | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.00 x.50 x7.00l,.80 | File Name: 0292777043 | 207 pages | How Writing Came About
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| An Important book for historians, archaeologists, ethnosemanticists, and other specialists in the development of writing.|By The Old Prof|This excellent book is an abridgment of Schmandt-Besserat’s two volumes on the inception of writing entitled BEFORE WRITING: I FROM COUNTING TO CUNEIFORM and II A CATALOG OF NEAR EASTERN TOKENS. The professional investigator will wan||Discoveries in the history of writing are rare, but Denise Schmandt-Besserat made one in realizing that phonetic writing in the West descends not from pictography, a view repeated everywhere, but from abstract, nonphonetic, mostly noniconographic accounting t
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.
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