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9780521838610: The First Writing Hardback: Script Invention as History and Process

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A 2004 treatment and examination of the origins of ancient writing. Studying often neglected writing systems, such as those of Mesoamerica, leading scholars collectively discuss how these scripts came into existence and developed during their first centuries of use. Egypt, Mesopotamia, Elamite, Mesoamerica and the Maya, Shang and Runic are represented.

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Stephen Houston is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, Rhode Island. A scholar of the ancient Maya in Mexico and Central America, he is the author of many books on the Maya, most recently The Memory of Bones: Body, Being and Experience among the Classic Maya (with David Stuart and Taube, 2010).

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9780521728263: The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process

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ISBN 10:  0521728266 ISBN 13:  9780521728263
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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