Writing as material practice : substance, surface and medium /
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Ubiquity Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Developing an approach to writing as material practice / Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse
- The twisting paths of recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact / Frank Salomon
- Writing as material technology: orientation within landscapes of the classic Maya world / Sarah E. Jackson
- Writing (and reading) as material practice: the world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation / Roger Matthews
- Re-writing the script: decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c.2000-1150 bc) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks
- The function and meaning of writing in the prehistoric Aegean: some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective / Helène Whittaker
- Form follows function: writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age / Sarah Finlayson
- Materiality of Minoan writing: modes of display and perception / Georgia Flouda
- Saving on clay: the linear B practice of cutting tablets / Helena Tomas
- Straight, crooked and joined-up writing: an early Mediterranean view / Alan Johnston
- "It Is Written"?: making, remaking and unmaking early 'writing' in the lower Nile Valley / Kathryn E. Piquette
- Written Greek but drawn Egyptian: script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus / Stephen Kidd
- The other writing: iconic literacy and Situla art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) / Elisa Perego
- 'Tombstones' in the North Italian Iron Age: careless writers or athletic readers? / Ruth D. Whitehouse
- Different times, different materials and different purposes: writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge / Craig Cessford
- Writing conservation: the impact of text on conservation decisions and practice / Elizabeth Pye
- Epilogue / John Bennet.
