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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / Barry B. Powell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Barry B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Writing--History.
- Writing.
- History.
- Alphabet--History.
- Alphabet.
- Writing--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 276 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood
- What is writing?
- Writing with signs
- Categories and features of writing
- Some general issues in the study of writing
- Protocuneiform and counting tokens
- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia
- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech
- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing
- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt
- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean
- The West Semitic revolution
- What kind of writing was West Semitic?
- The origins of West Semitic writing
- Chinese logography
- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica
- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world
- Summary and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405162562
- 1405162562
- OCLC:
- 269455610
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