Writing from Invention to Decipherment

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* 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