Egypt
- New Book: Visible Language
Oriental Institute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the above link. Available as a PDF download. 12.33MB OIMP 32. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is...
- The Rise, Zenith And Fall Of Writing Systems
Antiquity The rise, zenith and fall of writing systems Gordon Whittaker STEPHEN HOUSTON (ed.). The first writing: script invention as history and process. xviii+418 pages, 123 illustrations, 2 tables. First paperback edition 2008 (first published in...
- New Book: Pictograms Or Pseudo Script?
Volume 25: PICTOGRAMS OR PSEUDO SCRIPT? Non-Textual Identity Marks in Practical Use in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere. Proceedings of a Conference in Leiden, 19-20 December 2006. B.J.J. Haring and O.E. Kaper (eds.) VII, 236 pp.; ISBN 978-90-6258-225-9 €...
- New Book: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Equinox Books The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by: John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston Description This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of...
- Origins Of Early Writing
Origins of Early Writing Systems It is a really slow news day so this is thrown in for anyone interested in the origins of early writing systems. The Proceedings from the conference Origins of Early Writing Systems have been posted online. But as surprising...
Egypt
New Book: The Shape of Script
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The Shape of Script. How and Why Writing Systems Change
Edited by Stephen D. Houston
The Shape of Script. How and Why Writing Systems Change
Edited by Stephen D. Houston
This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors—who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt—utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.
- New Book: Visible Language
Oriental Institute Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for the above link. Available as a PDF download. 12.33MB OIMP 32. Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond Writing, the ability to make language visible and permanent, is...
- The Rise, Zenith And Fall Of Writing Systems
Antiquity The rise, zenith and fall of writing systems Gordon Whittaker STEPHEN HOUSTON (ed.). The first writing: script invention as history and process. xviii+418 pages, 123 illustrations, 2 tables. First paperback edition 2008 (first published in...
- New Book: Pictograms Or Pseudo Script?
Volume 25: PICTOGRAMS OR PSEUDO SCRIPT? Non-Textual Identity Marks in Practical Use in Ancient Egypt and Elsewhere. Proceedings of a Conference in Leiden, 19-20 December 2006. B.J.J. Haring and O.E. Kaper (eds.) VII, 236 pp.; ISBN 978-90-6258-225-9 €...
- New Book: The Disappearance Of Writing Systems
Equinox Books The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication Edited by: John Baines, John Bennet, Stephen Houston Description This volume gathers papers from the first conference ever to be held on the disappearance of...
- Origins Of Early Writing
Origins of Early Writing Systems It is a really slow news day so this is thrown in for anyone interested in the origins of early writing systems. The Proceedings from the conference Origins of Early Writing Systems have been posted online. But as surprising...