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  • Codes in the Making. A New Appraisal of Neolithic Imagery in Southwest Asia

  • Mattia Cartolano, Silvia Ferrara
  • Journal:
    Cambridge Archaeological Journal , First View
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    21 February 2025, pp. 1-12
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  • Marks and figurative representations have been recognized as crucial socio-cognitive components that contributed to the transition from foraging to farming of the Neolithic in southwest Asia, during a period in which communities adopted novel social interactions and economic strategies. This article investigates image production and the trajectories tied to the creation of visual codes. We show that since the early Neolithic phases (c. 9700–6600 cal. bc) societies in southwest Asia engaged with specific symbols and created narrative and operational semasiographies, intended to serve as key communicative devices that functioned as community ties and contributed to social interaction across distant groups.

  • Seals and signs: tracing the origins of writing in ancient South-west Asia

  • Kathryn Kelley, Mattia Cartolano, Silvia Ferrara
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    Antiquity / Volume 99 / Issue 403 / February 2025
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    05 November 2024, pp. 64-82
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    February 2025
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  • Administrative innovations in South-west Asia during the fourth millennium BC, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script, one of the first writing systems. Seals were rich in iconography, but little research has focused on the potential influence of specific motifs on the development of the sign-based proto-cuneiform script. Here, the authors identify symbolic precursors to fundamental proto-cuneiform signs among late pre-literate seal motifs that describe the transportation of vessels and textiles, highlighting the synergy of early systems of clay-based communication.

  • Frontmatter

  • Edited by Matilde Civitillo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Silvia Ferrara, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Meissner, University of Cambridge
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  • Introduction

  • Edited by Matilde Civitillo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Silvia Ferrara, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Meissner, University of Cambridge
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  • 1 - Cretan Hieroglyphic Sign Repertoires: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

  • Edited by Matilde Civitillo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Silvia Ferrara, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Meissner, University of Cambridge
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  • 8 - Investigations into the Language(s) Behind Cretan Hieroglyphic and Linear A

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  • Indexes

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  • Contents

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  • Appendix

  • Edited by Matilde Civitillo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Silvia Ferrara, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Meissner, University of Cambridge
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  • 3 - Cretan Hieroglyphic Writing as a System of Visual Encoding: Iconicity and Graphic Communication

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  • 2 - Origins and Interface with Iconography

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  • Epilogue

  • Edited by Matilde Civitillo, Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Silvia Ferrara, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy, Torsten Meissner, University of Cambridge
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  • Preface: The Cretan Hieroglyphic Script and Problems of Decipherment

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  • List of Tables

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  • Acknowledgments

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  • 5 - Forms, Materials and Sequences

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  • Analytical Index

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  • 9 - The Future of Cretan Hieroglyphs: Outlooks and Trajectories

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  • 4 - Macro View: Uses, Social Practices and Ideological Implications of Cretan Hieroglyphic Texts

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  • Concordances

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