Writing as Material Practice
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Language
English
ISBN
0-0-1472-2100
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Abstracts
Chapter 1. Introduction: Developing an approach to writing as material practice
Chapter 2. The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact
Chapter 3. Writing as Material Technology: Orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world
Chapter 4. Writing (and Reading) as Material Practice: The world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation
Chapter 5. Re-writing the Script: Decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c.2000–115 bc)
Chapter 6. The Function and Meaning of Writing in the Prehistoric Aegean: Some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective
Chapter 7. Form Follows Function: Writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age
Chapter 8. Materiality of Minoan Writing: Modes of display and perception
Chapter 9. Saving on Clay: The Linear B practice of cutting tablets
Chapter 10. Straight, Crooked and Joined-up Writing: An early Mediterranean view
Chapter 11. “It Is Written”?: Making, remaking and unmaking early ‘writing’ in the lower Nile Valley
Chapter 12. Written Greek but Drawn Egyptian: Script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus
Chapter 13. The Other Writing: Iconic literacy and Situla Art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy)
Chapter 14. ‘Tombstones’ in the North Italian Iron Age: Careless writers or athletic readers?
Chapter 15. Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes: Writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge
Chapter 16. Writing Conservation: The impact of text on conservation decisions and practice
Chapter 17. Epilogue
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