In this book, author Denise Schmandt-Besserat discusses the historical beginning and invention of counting, which has only been developed within the last 5,000 years.
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 ...
Before Writing gives a new perspective on the evolution of communication. It points out that when writing began in Mesopotamia it was not, as previously thought, a sudden and spontaneous invention. Instead, it was the outgrowth of many thousands of years' worth of experience at manipulating symbols. Denise Schmandt-Besserat presents a system of ...
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 in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C. - the world ...
Text and photographs introduce the methods used by archaeologists and explain how the artifacts found fit together like puzzle pieces to reveal life of long ago.
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Denise Schmandt-Besserat, Shirley M. Alexander, University of Texas at Austin. University Art Museum, College Park. Art Gallery University of Maryland
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