
Writing from Invention to Decipherment
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- Introduction
- PART I: BEGINNINGS OF WRITING
- 1: Mattia Cartolano: Cognition, iconography, and graphic communication systems on portable objects in the Near Eastern Neolithic
- 2: Paola Demattè: The origins of Chinese writing
- 3: Aaron J. Koller: The failure and success of the early alphabet
- 4: Willemijn Waal: Closing the gap: writing in the Aegean from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age
- 5: Alex de Voogt: The Caroline Islands Script: how one script informs five debates
- PART II: THE FUTURE OF UNDECIPHERED SCRIPTS
- 6: Ignasi-Xavier Adiego: Deciphering a writing system: luck, intuition, or method?
- 7: Judith Weingarten: The cat in the Cretan Hieroglyphic script: ma, what it means, and where it leads
- 8: Giorgia Baldacci: The Phaistos disk: placing an enigmatic artefact in its cultural context
- 9: Barbara Montecchi: Design and origins of Linear A picture-based signs
- 10: Miguel Valério: The Rongorongo 'lunar calendar' of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and the type of script
- PART III: CURRENT APPROACHES TO EARLY WRITING AND READING
- 11: Christian M. Prager, Katja Diederichs, Antje Grothe, Nikolai Grube, Guido Krempel, Mallory Matsumoto, Tobias Mercer, Cristina Vertan, and Elisabeth Wagner: IDIOM - A digital research environment for the documentation and study of Maya hieroglyphic texts and language
- 12: Sarah Finlayson: Looking for readers in the Bronze Age Aegean
- 13: Louis Godart: Looking for writers in the archives of King Nestor
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