| | Their Way of Writing(Illustrated) Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia) by Elizabeth Hill Boone, Gary Urton, Reymundo Chapa, Carrie J. Brezine, Federico Navarrete, Margaret A. Jackson, Michel R. Oudijk, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, Michael D. Coe, Frank Salomon, Javier Urcid, Tom Cummins, Víctor Falcón Huayta, Stephen D. Houston, Karl A. Taube, R. Tom Zuidema, Michel R. Salomon Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2011 by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library And Collection Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-88402-368-5, ISBN: 0-88402-368-0
"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 autonomously developed alternative systems that conveyed knowledge in a tangible medium. New World systems range from the hieroglyphic script of the Maya, to the figural and iconic pictographies ..."
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