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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 1 IN ODYSSEUS'S WAKE 1 1 LOGOS 13 3 THE NEW LABYRINTH 47 4 THE SKEIN OF ARIADNE 65 S 'HEAR YE, CRETANS AND GREEKS!' 93 6 THE BATTLE OF NAXOS 119 7 RAPANUI 139 8 TALKI NG BOARDS OF TH E PACI FIC 153 9 ATOP TERE VAKA 167 10 'ALL THE BIRDS . ' 187 11 SURFING THE RONGORONGO 205 Suggested Reading 223 Index 227 A 'glyph' (short for hieroglyph) is a sign in a script. And a 'breaker' is a person who cracks a script's code. A 'glyph breaker' is then a decipherer, someone who lets us read the unreadable, that linguistic magician who gives voice to the mute past. Until 1984 no one had been able to read Crete's 3600-year old Phaistos Disk, Europe's earliest literature and greatest written enigma. Until 1994 no one could make sense of Easter Island's mysterious Iongorongo writing, Oceania's only script predating the twentieth century. No one had ever deciphered two wholly different historical scripts before. Until now. This is the true story of these two achievements.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Glyph-Breaker | Steven R. Fischer | Taschenbuch | x | Englisch | 2011 | Springer | EAN 9781461274902 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Both of these scripts yield clues of great historical importance. Fischers previous decipherment, of a Cretan artefact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek. Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo shows that it was not merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorised texts, but was actually read and used for creative composition. This is the exciting story of these two decipherments, by the man who now must rank as the greatest glyphbreaker of all time. 252 pp. Englisch.…

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Condición: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. * Fischers decipherments yielded important discoveries: that the Minoans, contrary to settled opinion, were closely related to the Greeks and that Rongorongo script was a living script, used not only for rituals but for composition, and thus the only activ. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -1 IN ODYSSEUS'S WAKE 1 1 LOGOS 13 3 THE NEW LABYRINTH 47 4 THE SKEIN OF ARIADNE 65 S 'HEAR YE, CRETANS AND GREEKS!' 93 6 THE BATTLE OF NAXOS 119 7 RAPANUI 139 8 TALKI NG BOARDS OF TH E PACI FIC 153 9 ATOP TERE VAKA 167 10 'ALL THE BIRDS . ' 187 11 SURFING THE RONGORONGO 205 Suggested Reading 223 Index 227 A 'glyph' (short for hieroglyph) is a sign in a script. And a 'breaker' is a person who cracks a script's code. A 'glyph breaker' is then a decipherer, someone who lets us read the unreadable, that linguistic magician who gives voice to the mute past. Until 1984 no one had been able to read Crete's 3600-year old Phaistos Disk, Europe's earliest literature and greatest written enigma. Until 1994 no one could make sense of Easter Island's mysterious Iongorongo writing, Oceania's only script predating the twentieth century. No one had ever deciphered two wholly different historical scripts before. Until now. This is the true story of these two achievements.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 252 pp. Englisch.…