ISBN:
9781909188259
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1909188263
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1909188255
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1909188247
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1909188263
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9781909188259
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9781909188242
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9781909188266
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 342 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Writing as material practice
Keywords:
Archaeology
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Writing History
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Archaeology
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Writing
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Anthropology
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Archaeology
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Humanities
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
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Sociology and anthropology
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HISTORY ; World
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Archaeology
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Writing
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History
Abstract:
Developing an approach to writing as material practice / Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse -- The twisting paths of recall : khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact / Frank Salomon -- Writing as material technology : orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world / Sarah E. Jackson -- Writing (and reading) as material practice : the world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation / Roger Matthews -- Re-writing the script : decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c. 2000-1150 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- The function and meaning of writing in the prehistoric Aegean : some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective / Helène Whittaker -- Form follows function : writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age / Sarah Finlayson -- Materiality of Minoan writing : modes of display and perception / Georgia Flouda -- Saving on clay : the Linear B practice of cutting tablets / Helena Tomas -- Straight, crooked and joined-up writing : an early Mediterranean view / Alan Johnston -- "It is written"? : making, remaking and unmaking early 'writing' in the lower Nile Valley / Kathryn E. Piquette -- Written Greek but drawn Egyptian : script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus / Stephen Kidd -- The other writing : iconic literacy and Situla art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) / Elisa Perego -- 'Tombstones' in the north Italian Iron Age : careless writers or athletic readers? / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Different times, different materials and different purposes : writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge / Craig Cessford -- Writing conservation : the impact of text on conservation decisions and practice / Elizabeth Pye -- Epilogue / John Bennet
Abstract:
Developing an approach to writing as material practice / Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse -- The twisting paths of recall : khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact / Frank Salomon -- Writing as material technology : orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world / Sarah E. Jackson -- Writing (and reading) as material practice : the world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation / Roger Matthews -- Re-writing the script : decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c. 2000-1150 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- The function and meaning of writing in the prehistoric Aegean : some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective / Helène Whittaker -- Form follows function : writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age / Sarah Finlayson -- Materiality of Minoan writing : modes of display and perception / Georgia Flouda -- Saving on clay : the Linear B practice of cutting tablets / Helena Tomas -- Straight, crooked and joined-up writing : an early Mediterranean view / Alan Johnston -- "It is written"? : making, remaking and unmaking early 'writing' in the lower Nile Valley / Kathryn E. Piquette -- Written Greek but drawn Egyptian : script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus / Stephen Kidd -- The other writing : iconic literacy and Situla art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) / Elisa Perego -- 'Tombstones' in the north Italian Iron Age : careless writers or athletic readers? / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Different times, different materials and different purposes : writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge / Craig Cessford -- Writing conservation : the impact of text on conservation decisions and practice / Elizabeth Pye -- Epilogue / John Bennet
Note:
"This volume grew out of a conference of the same title, held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in May 2009"--Page [iii]
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