The first writing : script invention as history and process / [edited by] Stephen D. Houston.
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.