Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America by Gary Urton, Federico Navarrete, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Stephen D. Houston, Carrie J. Brezine, Karl A. Taube, R. Tom Zuidema, Victor Falcon Huayta, Margaret A. Jackson, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Frank Salomon, Michel R. Oudijk, Michael D. Coe, Javier Urcid, Reymundo Chapa

Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America
Gary Urton, Federico Navarrete, Thomas B. F. Cummins, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Stephen D. Houston, Carrie J. Brezine, Karl A. Taube, R. Tom Zuidema, Victor Falcon Huayta, Margaret A. Jackson, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Frank Salomon, Michel R. Oudijk, Michael D. Coe, Javier Urcid, Reymundo Chapa

412 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

challenging informative medium-paced

mark as owned

Browse similar books...

Start a readalong...

Start a buddy read...

View question bank...

Book Information

Add missing information...

Report missing/incorrect information...

Description

Writing and recording are key cultural activities that allow humans to communicate across time and space. Whereas Old World writing evolved into the alphabetic system that is now employed around the world, the indigenous peoples in the Americas au...