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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archeology Cover 1 Book Title 2 Copyright 3 Contents 4 List of contributors 6 Acknowledgements 8 Abbreviations 10 1. Introduction: writing practices in socio-cultural context: Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele and Natalia Elvira Astoreca 12 2. Towards a social archaeology of writing practices: Philip J. Boyes 30 3. The lives of inscribed commemorative objects: the transformation of private personal memory in Mesopotamian temple contexts: Nancy Highcock 48 4. A cognitive archaeology of writing: concepts, models, goals: Karenleigh A. Overmann 66 5. The materiality of the Cretan Hieroglyphic script: textile production-related referents to hieroglyphic signs on seals and sealings from Middle Bronze Age Crete: Marie-Louise Nosch and Agata Ulanowska 84 6. Visual dimensions of Maya hieroglyphic writing: meanings beyond the surface: Christian M. Prager 112 7. Visibility of runic writing and its relation to Viking Age Society: Julia-Sophie Heier 136 8. Words beyond writings: how to decrypt the secret writings of the masters of psalmody (Yunnan, China)?: Aurélie Névot 154 9. A script ‘good to drink’. The invention of writing systems among the Sora and other tribes of In

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Philip J. Boyes;Philippa M. Steele;Natalia Elvira Astoreca;

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