Author: Joint Expedition of the Baghdad School, the University Museum, and Dropsie College to MesopotamiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Excavations at Tepe Gawra
Author: Joint Expedition of the Baghdad School, the University Museum, and Dropsie College to MesopotamiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Excavations at Tepe Gawra
Author: Ephraim Avigdor SpeiserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tepe Gawra
Author: Mitchell S. RothmanPublisher: UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN: 9780924171895
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Of Demographic Trends in Other Greater Mesopotamian Sub-regions. p. 11.
Excavations at Tepe Gawra
Author: Ephraim Avigdor SpeiserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
On the High Road
Author: Hilary GopnikPublisher:
ISBN: 9781568591650
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Road to Babylon
Author: MEADEPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004670912
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Archaeology of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Adjacent Regions
Author: Konstantinos KopaniasPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784913944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Conference proceedings presenting the first opportunity for leading figures in the burgeoning area of archaeological research in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq to gather and present all the key new projects which are revolutionising our understanding of the region.
When Writing Met Art
Author: Denise Schmandt-BesseratPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292774877
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
An archaeologist and art historian examines the impact of literacy on visual art during the early urban period in the Near East. Denise Schmandt-Besserat opened a new chapter in the history of literacy when she demonstrated that the cuneiform script invented in the ancient Near East in the late fourth millennium BC—the world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic counting device. Her discovery, was published in Before Writing: From Counting to Cuneiform and How Writing Came About, which was named by American Scientist as one of the “100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science.” In When Writing Met Art, Schmandt-Besserat expands her history of writing into the visual realm. Using examples of ancient Near Eastern writing and masterpieces of art, she shows that between 3500 and 3000 BC the conventions of writing—everything from its linear organization to its semantic use of the form, size, order, and placement of signs—spread to the making of art, resulting in artworks that presented complex visual narratives in place of the repetitive motifs found on preliterate art objects. Schmandt-Besserat then demonstrates art's reciprocal impact on the development of writing. She shows how, beginning in 2700-2600 BC, the inclusion of inscriptions on funerary and votive art objects emancipated writing from its original accounting function. To fulfill its new role, writing evolved to replicate speech; this made it possible to compile, organize, and synthesize unlimited amounts of information. Schmandt-Besserat’s pioneering investigation documents a turning point in human history, when two of our most fundamental information media reciprocally multiplied their capacities to communicate. When writing met art, literate civilization was born.
Excavations at San José Mogote 2
Author: Kent V. FlanneryPublisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 0915703866
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
San José Mogote is a 60-70 ha Formative site in the northern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, which was occupied for a thousand years before the city of Monte Albán was founded. Filling 432 pages and utilizing more than 400 photographs and line drawings, this book describes in detail more than 35 public buildings, including men’s houses, one-room temples, a performance platform, two-room state temples, a ballcourt, and two types of palaces.
A Dictionary of Archaeology
Author: Ian ShawPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470751967
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
This dictionary provides those studying or working in archaeology with a complete reference to the field.