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Denise Schmandt-Besserat

French-American archaeologist

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study of Sumerian writing

  • Some of the pictorial signs used at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Calif.
    In writing: Sumerian writing

    The French American archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat, building on a hypothesis advanced by the Assyriologist Pierre Amiet of the Louvre, demonstrated a series of small steps leading from the use of tokens for simple bookkeeping purposes to the development of written tablets on which graphs of the script stand for…

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