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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Powell, Barry B.
Titre(s) : Writing [Texte imprimé] : theory and history of the technology of civilization / Barry B. Powell
Publication : Chichester (U.K.) : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Description matérielle : XX-276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood ; What is writing?
; Writing with signs ; Categories and features of writing ; Some general issues
in the study of writing ; Protocuneiform and counting tokens ; Origins of lexigraphic
writing in Mesopotamia ; Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian
hieroglyphs ; Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech ; The origin and nature of Egyptian
writing ; "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt ; Syllabic
scripts of the Aegean ; The West Semitic revolution ; What kind of writing was West
Semitic? ; The origins of West Semitic writing ; Chinese logography ; Lexigraphic
writing in Mesoamerica ; The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world ;
Summary and conclusions.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index
Sujet(s) : Écriture -- Histoire
Alphabet -- Histoire
Écriture -- Société
Indice(s) Dewey :
411.093 (23e éd.) = Systèmes d'écriture - Monde antique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781405162562 (hardcover) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1405162562 (hardcover) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb425197734
Notice n° :
FRBNF42519773
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