La genèse de l'écriture. Collection Lâne d'or. Histoire de l’art beyond Humanism

beyond Humanism

a graphic designer by training

crests so remarkable that they are given a name - an author's name - as we attribute to these great accidents of terrain or to these forms that water takes in seas

or the Head of Pharaohs and Others

La genèse de l'écriture. Collection Lâne d'or. Histoire de l’art beyond HumanismThe scientific understanding of the genesis of writing stems from the discoveries of Denise Schmandt Besserat. This book presents the material evidence of "tokens," examines their evolution up to the transmission of their functions to clay tablets, and then analyzes the socioeconomic implications of this millennia old process.