TY - SER
AU - Barry B. Powell
CY - Malden, MA
LA - English
N1 - Contents:
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
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
PP - Malden, MA
PY - 2009
SN - 9781405162562
EP - 276 pp.
TI - Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization
ER -