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Last writing: script obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica
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Introduction: Setting the questions. By any measure, the creation and development of writing was a cybernetic advance with far-reaching consequences. It allowed writers to communicate with readers who were distant in time and space, extended the storage capacity of human knowledge, including information that ranged from mundane accounting to sacred narrative, bridged visual and auditory worlds by linking icons with meaningful sound, and offered an enduring means of displaying and manipulating...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Society for Comparative Study of Society and History
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University of Oxford
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- Journal:
- Comparative Studies in Society and History More from this journal
- Volume:
- 45
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 430-479
- DOI:
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1475-2999
- ISSN:
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0010-4175
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:931
- Deposit date:
- 2008-03-14
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- Cambridge University Press. Society for Comparative Study of Society and History
- Copyright date:
- 2003
- Notes:
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Houston, S., Baines, J. & Cooper, J. (2003) Last Writing: Script Obsolescence in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 45 (3), 430-479.
This article was originally published by Cambridge University Press, and is available at http://www.cambridge.org/journals/journal_catalogue.asp?historylinks=ALPHA&mnemonic=CSS ©2003 The Society for Comparative Study of Society and History.
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