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- catalog abstract "A concise yet wide-ranging survey of the invention and evolution of writing. The invention of writing marked the real beginning of civilization as we know it. Without writing, scholarship, religion, philosophy--and indeed, knowledge of every kind--would be rudimentary, for all these things depend on the traditions of communicable intelligence that only writing really secures. As a conscious and systematic activity, writing began in the fourth millennium B.C., its first known manifestation being cuneiform in Mesopotamia; its second, the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Each represents an immense step forward in human intellectual development. Later, and still more dramatically, comes the first alphabetic script, which originated in Phoenicia and from which all the known alphabetic scripts used today are derived.--Adapted from jacket.".
- catalog contributor b1997657.
- catalog created "[1962]".
- catalog date "1962".
- catalog date "[1962]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1962]".
- catalog description "A concise yet wide-ranging survey of the invention and evolution of writing. The invention of writing marked the real beginning of civilization as we know it. Without writing, scholarship, religion, philosophy--and indeed, knowledge of every kind--would be rudimentary, for all these things depend on the traditions of communicable intelligence that only writing really secures. As a conscious and systematic activity, writing began in the fourth millennium B.C., its first known manifestation being cuneiform in Mesopotamia; its second, the Egyptian hieroglyphs. Each represents an immense step forward in human intellectual development. Later, and still more dramatically, comes the first alphabetic script, which originated in Phoenicia and from which all the known alphabetic scripts used today are derived.--Adapted from jacket.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 179-184.".
- catalog description "I. Primitive means of communication. Memory aid devices -- II. Analytic scripts of ancient Near East. Cuneiform writing ; Egyptian writing ; Cretan scripts ; Indus Valley script ; Hittite scripts -- III. The Far East. Chinese writing ; Non-Chinese scripts of China ; Japanese scripts ; Easter Island script -- IV. Pre-Columbian America. Cultural puzzle of Pre-Columbian America ; Mayan script ; Aztec script -- V. Phonetic scripts and the alphabet. Pseudo-hieroglyphic script of Byblos ; Cypriote syllabary ; Persian cuneiform ; Origin of the alphabet -- VI. Diffusion of the alphabet. Canaanite branch ; Aramaic branch ; Greek alphabet ; Latin alphabet.".
- catalog extent "261 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Writing.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Writing.".
- catalog isPartOf "Ancient peoples and places (Praeger) ; v. 25.".
- catalog isPartOf "Ancient peoples and places, v. 25".
- catalog isPartOf "Books that matter".
- catalog issued "1962".
- catalog issued "[1962]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Praeger".
- catalog relation "Writing.".
- catalog subject "411".
- catalog subject "P211 .D55".
- catalog subject "Writing History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Primitive means of communication. Memory aid devices -- II. Analytic scripts of ancient Near East. Cuneiform writing ; Egyptian writing ; Cretan scripts ; Indus Valley script ; Hittite scripts -- III. The Far East. Chinese writing ; Non-Chinese scripts of China ; Japanese scripts ; Easter Island script -- IV. Pre-Columbian America. Cultural puzzle of Pre-Columbian America ; Mayan script ; Aztec script -- V. Phonetic scripts and the alphabet. Pseudo-hieroglyphic script of Byblos ; Cypriote syllabary ; Persian cuneiform ; Origin of the alphabet -- VI. Diffusion of the alphabet. Canaanite branch ; Aramaic branch ; Greek alphabet ; Latin alphabet.".
- catalog title "Writing.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".