Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean

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Exploring Writing Systems and Practices in the Bronze Age Aegean

Steele, Philippa M

Oxbow Books

10/2023

192

Dura

Inglês

9781789259018

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements

List of Tables and Figures

Introduction





Cretan Hieroglyphic, Linear A and Linear B (and their Cypriot cousins)

Chronology

Theoretical perspectives and terminology





1: Exploring script adoption





How do we know that Linear B adopted Linear A syllabographic sign values with little change?

Can we use Linear B sign values or structural features to reconstruct Minoan phonology or other linguistic features?

How should we understand the nature of the transition from Linear A to B?





2: Exploring logography





Classifying signs in writing systems

Linear B

Linear A

Cretan Hieroglyphic

Understanding logography in the Bronze Age Aegean





3: Exploring vitality





Cretan Hieroglyphic

Linear A

Linear B

Syllabic writing in Cyprus

Relationships between writing and language vitality

The vitality of writing traditions

Epilogue: writing for the future





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Archaeological Method & Theory/Theory; Bronze Age; Early Modern & Modern Humanities & Cultures/Language & Literature; Greece; inscriptions; interdisciplinary; linguistic; social; syllabus; systems; writing