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The rise, zenith and fall of writing systems

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gordon Whittaker
Gordon Whittaker*
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*Linguistische Anthropologie und Altamerikanistik, Seminar für Romanische Philologie, Universität Göttingen, Humboldtallee 19, 37073 Göttingen, Germany (Email: gwhitta@gwdg.de)
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 324 , June 2010 , pp. 562 - 564
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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