Extract
Before Writing, vols. 1-2.
Before Writing marks the end of over two decades of work in which Denise Schmandt-besserat has developed her theories about the meaning of the "small clay objects" which we - thanks to her labors - now associate with the word "token." Her previous specialized studies here find revision and integration into a larger theoretical picture depicting the relationship of tokens to the beginn...
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