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Origin of Writing

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Origin of Writing

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How did Homo sapiens become Homo scribens? Was writing originally an attempt to represent speech? Did it evolve from prehistoric art? What types of sign were the precursors of the alphabet and the hieroglyph? This book proposes a new approach to an age-old complex of problems, and offers some iconoclastic solutions. Surveying present-day attempts to explain what might have set our ancestors on the road to writing, it exposes the weaknesses of current theories and shows how the mystery surrounding that first step across the threshold of literacy is generated by projecting back modern assumptions into prehistoric times. But this is not essentially a book about the distant past. Its conclusions are equally relevant to contemporary concepts of cultural evolution and contemporary debates about the basic tenets of linguistics.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
178
Release Date:
2013-04-01
Publication Date:
2013-04-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715622609
ISBN13:
9780715622605
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
213 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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