Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood
What is writing?
Writing with signs
Categories and features of writing
Some general issues in the study of writing
Protocuneiform and counting tokens
Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia
Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs
Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech
The origin and nature of Egyptian writing
"The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt
Syllabic scripts of the Aegean
The West Semitic revolution
What kind of writing was West Semitic?
The origins of West Semitic writing
Chinese logography
Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica
The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world
Summary and conclusions.
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization by Barry B. Powell. ISBN 9781405162562. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
