The archaeology of verbal and nonverbal meaning
Subtitle: Mesopotamian domestic architecture and its textual dimension
By: Paolo Brusasco.
Series: BAR international series -- 1631
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9781407300450
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic -- Iraq.; Architecture, Ancient -- Iraq.; Visual communication -- Iraq -- History.; Ur (Extinct city).; Nippur (Extinct city).; Iraq -- Antiquities.
Notes: "Mesopotamian houses excavated at Ur and Nippur represent a unique archaeological context for the analysis of the interaction of verbal and nonverbal sign systems in that archaeologists can combine archival evidence of the III-II millennium BC with well-preserved house layouts. This work provides a general framework for the interpretation of other sites where textual evidence is absent or not in context. Although the aims of the book are multiple, the main objective is theoretical: The author goes beyond the interpretation of Mesopotamian domestic sociology and offers a semiotic theory of verbal and nonverbal meanings, useful for archaeology in general"--Publisher's web site

Includes bibliographical references and index.