ARCHAEOLOGY OF VERBAL AND NONVERBAL MEANING: MESOPOTAMIAN DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND ITS TEXTUAL DIMENSION.
Series: BAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES; 1631
Publisher: ARCHAEOPRESS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und
Number of pages: 147
Description: "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