Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of CivilizationISBN: 978-1-4051-6256-2
Hardcover
296 pages
April 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Maps xiv
Preface xv
Chronology xvii
Introduction: A Difficult Topic, Little Studied, Poorly Understood 1
1 What Is Writing? 11
2 Writing with Signs 19
3 Categories and Features of Writing 38
4 Some General Issues in the Study of Writing 51
5 Protocuneiform and Counting Tokens 60
6 Origin of Lexigraphic Writing in Mesopotamia 70
7 Plato's Ideas and Champollion’s Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs 85
8 Egyptian Writing and Egyptian Speech 100
9 The Origin and Nature of Egyptian Writing 108
10 “The House of Life”: Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt 120
11 Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean 128
12 The West Semitic Revolution 148
13 What Kind of Writing Was West Semitic? 163
14 The Origins of West Semitic Writing 175
15 Chinese Logography 187
16 Lexigraphic Writing in Mesoamerica 206
17 The Greek Alphabet: A Writing That Changed the World 227
18 Summary and Conclusions 245
Glossary 255
Bibliography 263
Index 270