The First Writing
Subtitle: Script Invention as History and Process
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780521838610
Subjects: Archaeology; Language & Linguistics; United States - General; History - General History; History; History: American; Sociology; Ancient World; Writing; Alphabet; Ancient - General; Social Science / Archaeology
First sentence: The theme of this book is the first writing systems - early cuneiform, proto-Elamite, Egyptian (all prior to 3000 BC, by some centuries), Chinese (prior to 1000 BC), and Maya and its Mesoamerican precursors (beginning ca. 500 BC).