Writing
Subtitle: theory and history of the technology of civilization
By: by Barry B. Powell.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781405162562
Subjects: Writing -- History; Alphabet -- History; Writing -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood; title: What is writing?; title: Writing with signs; title: The categories of writing; title: Some general principles; title: Protocuneiform and counting tokens; title: The origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia; title: Plato's ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs; title: Egyptian writing and Egyptian language; title: The origin and nature of Egyptian writing; title: "The house of life": scribes and writing in ancient Egypt; title: Syllabic scripts of the Aegean; title: The West Semitic revolution; title: What kind of writing was West Semitic?; title: The origins of West Semitic writing; title: Chinese logography; title: Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica; title: The Greek alphabet: a writing that changed the world; title: Summary and conclusions.