The shape of script : how and why writing systems change /

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Other Authors: Houston, Stephen D.

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Language: English

Edition: 1st ed.

Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.

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Call Number: Z105 .S257 2012

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245 1 4 |a The shape of script :   |b how and why writing systems change /   |c edited by Stephen D. 
250 |a 1st ed. 
264 |a Santa Fe, N.M. :   |b School for Advanced Research Press,   |c 2012. 
300 |a xxiii, 317 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 23 cm. 
336 |2 rdacontent  |a text  |b txt 
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490 0 |a School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cuneiform: Changes and Developments / Niek Veldhuis Scripts, High Culture, and Administration in Middle Kingdom Egypt / John Baines Paragrams, Punctuation, and System in Ancient Roman Script / John Bodel Stability and Change in Arabic Script / Beatrice Gruendler Some Principles and Patterns of Script Change / Richard Salomon Script Change in Bronze Age China / Kyle Steinke The Development of Writing in Japan / David B. Lurie Maya Writing: Modified, Transformed / Stephen D. Houston The Shape of Script in a Colonial Context: Alphabetic and Pictorial Registers in Mixtec Texts / John Monaghan Trends and Transitions in the History of Written Numerals / Stephen Chrisomalis. 
650 0 |a Paleography. 
650 0 |a Writing -- History. 
700 1 |a Houston, Stephen D. 
901 |a reviewed 
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