The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process - Softcover

 
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Synopsis

In this book, leading scholars in the field discuss and analyse the origins of ancient writing.

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About the Author

Stephen Houston is Professor of Anthropology at Brown University, Rhode Island. A scholar of the ancient Maya in Mexico and Central America, he is the author of many books on the Maya, most recently The Memory of Bones: Body, Being and Experience among the Classic Maya (with David Stuart and Taube, 2010).

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ISBN 10:  0521838614 ISBN 13:  9780521838610
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004
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