How Writing Came About

By Denise Schmandt-Besserat

In 1992, the college of Texas Press released Before Writing, quantity I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, quantity II: A Catalog of close to jap Tokens. In those volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking thought that the cuneiform script invented within the close to East within the past due fourth millennium B.C.—the world's oldest identified process of writing—derived from an archaic counting device.

How Writing took place draws fabric from either volumes to offer Schmandt-Besserat's conception for a large public and lecture room viewers. in line with the research and interpretation of a range of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 websites in Iran, Iraq, the Levant, and Turkey, it files the quick precursor of the cuneiform script.

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