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When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story
When Writing Met Art From Symbol to Story
Author: Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which she published in Before Writing: From ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292713345
ISBN-10: 0292713347
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
Pages: 144
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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