The Disappearance of Writing Systems - Perspectives on Literacy and Communication - John Baines
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The Disappearance of Writing Systems - Perspectives on Literacy and Communication - John Baines
Chris Gosden
University of Oxford
Description
In what follows I shall look first at oral histories and how such histories might be rooted in the landscape, before looking at unconscious forms of history (flirting with oxymoron here for those who think history is always conscious) deriving from working in an old human landscape, the past shaping of which affects present actions.