Making Tokens Talk
With Niloufar Moghimi, “Making Tokens Talk” in Anna Margherita Jasink, Judith Weingarten and Silvia Ferrara, eds., Non-Scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas, Firenze University Press, Firenze, 2017, p. 175-183.
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Tokens: their Significance for the Origin of Counting and Writing
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The Evolution of Writing
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Tokens and Writing: the Cognitive Development
SCRIPTA, VOLUME 1 (2009)
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Tokens in China, Europe and Africa – The significance
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From Accounting to Writing
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Articles on Tokens in Different Languages
The Austinite who discovered the origins of writing
Link to the Michael Barnes article on Austin American Statesman
Video Extra from Austin American Statesman Article
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Research on Tokens by Other Scholars
Major Additions to the 1992 Token Catalogue in Denise Schmandt-Besserat’s Before Writing, Vol. 2
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