Denise Schmandt Besserat: 2 books
When Writing Met Art
From Symbol to Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a major new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, which...
by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East...