Winner, Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.--the world's oldest known system of writing--derived from an archaic counting device.
How Writing Came About draws material from both volumes...
Winner, Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volu...
