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How Writing Came About

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Winner, Most sensible 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 within the Near East within the overdue fourth millennium B.C.—the sector’s oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device.

How Writing Came About draws subject material from both volumes to offer Schmandt-Besserat’s theory for a wide public and study room target market. In keeping with the analysis and interpretation of a choice 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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