TY  - BOOK
AU  - Powell,Barry B
TI  - Writing: theory and history of the technology of civilization
SN  - 9781405162562
U1  - 411.09 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - History
KW  - Writing
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index; 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
ER  -