The first writing : script invention as history and process / [edited by] Stephen D. Houston.

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Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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300 |a xvii, 417 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 26 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [354]-394) and index. 
505 0 |a Overture to The first writing / Stephen D. Houston -- The possibilty and actuality of writing / John S. Robertson -- Writing systems: a case study in cultural evolution / Bruce G. Trigger -- Babylonian beginnings: the origin of the cuneiform writing system in comparative perspective / Jerrold S. Cooper -- The state of decipherment of proto-Elamite / Robert K. Englund -- The earliest Egyptian writing: development, context, purpose / John Baines -- Anyang writing and the origin of the Chinese writing system / Robert W. Bagley -- Writing on shell and bone in Shang China / Françoise Bottéro -- Reasons for runes / Henrik Williams -- Writing in early Mesoamerica / Stephen D. Houston -- Beyond writing / Elizabeth Hill Boone -- Final thoughts on first writing / Stephen D. Houston. 
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