When Writing Met Art: From Symbol to Story

by Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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 Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, was widely reported in professional journals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292713347
• ISBN13: 9780292713345
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.3" x 10.2"