SOCIAL AND SYMBOLIC ASPECTS OF MINOAN WRITING.

This article looks at the non-utilitarian functions of writing in Crete during the Palatial period. It argues that writing was used as a marker of status and prestige and that it was also used for communication with the divine. It also attempts to interpret what have usually been seen as isolated ex...

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Publicado en:	European Journal of Archaeology Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 29 - 42
Autor principal:	Whittaker, Helène
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Cambridge University Press Apr2005
Materias:	Pseudocode (Computer program language) Writing Communication Signs & symbols Inscriptions Crete (Greece) Greece
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