Title: The disappearance of writing systems : perspectives on literacy and communication /
Authors: Baines, John, 1946-; Bennet, John, 1957-; Houston, Stephen D.; Houston, Stephen D.; Boone, Elizabeth Hill.
Publisher: Equinox,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Writing History; Language obsolescence.
Contents: Now you see it; now you don't! The disappearance of the linear A script on Crete / John Bennet -- The disappearance of writing systems : hieroglyphic Luwian / J. David Hawkins -- The obsolescence and demise of cuneiform writing in Elam / Jeremy Black -- Increasingly redundant : the growing obsolescence of the cuneiform script in Babylonia from 539 BC / David Brown -- Postscript: Redundancy reconsidered : reflections on David Brown's thesis / Jerrold Cooper -- Script obsolescence in ancient Italy : from Pre-Roman to Roman writing / Kathryn Lomas -- Whatever happened to Kharoṣṭhī? The fate of a forgotten Indic script / Richard Salomon --