Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001 In 1992, the
University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From
Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of
Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat
set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script
invented in the Near East in the late fourth millennium B.C.—the
world's oldest known system of writing—derived from an archaic
counting device. How Writing Came About draws material from both
volumes to present Schmandt-Besserat's theory for a wide public and
classroom audience. Based on the analysis and interpretation of a
selection of 8,000 tokens or counters from 116 sites in Iran, Iraq,
the Levant, and Turkey, it documents the immediate precursor of the
cuneiform script.
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