How Writing Came About by Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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University of Texas Press , 2006 10" x 7". xii, 193 pp. "Based on the analysis and interpretation of a selection of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 sites...it documents the immediate precursor of the cuneiform script." Abridged edition of " Before Writing, Volumes I and II." Illustrated. One page of the preface has some pencil underlining, otherwise clean and bright.

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Univ of Texas Pr, 1997. Paperback. New. abridged edition. 193 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.50 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. Winner, 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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