25 mars 2022
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
David Wengrow, « Liminal », Presses universitaires de Provence, ID : 10.4000/books.pup.40818
The papers presented in this first volume of Préhistoires de la Méditerranée have in common a concern with the wider communicative practices out of which writing systems first emerged. Their point of departure, in many cases, is the limited relationship between writing and spoken language that characterizes many, and perhaps all, of the world’s earliest known scripts. In Egypt and the Middle East, where the earliest scripts later developed into more extensive systems of language notation, thi...