Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean

by Philippa M. Steele

Establishes an innovative interdisciplinary theoretical framework that enables a new outlook for writing studies and the development of more convincing explanations for a number of unusual features of the early Aegean scripts.

Writing does not begin and end with the encoding of an idea into a group of symbols. It is practiced by people who have learnt its principles and acquired the tools and skills for doing it, in a particular context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789259010
• ISBN13: 9781789259018
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 9.5"