The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process

ISBN 10: 0521728266 / ISBN 13: 9780521728263

Published by Cambridge University Press March 2008, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press March 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521728266
• ISBN 13: 9780521728263
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

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

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).