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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2020
      October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108783477
      9781108479387
      9781108742672
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108783477
      Dimensions:
      (276 x 219 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.37kg, 436 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (276 x 203 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.04kg, 438 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Archaeology, Classical Languages, Archaeology
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Archaeology, Classical Languages, Archaeology
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    When does a continuum become a divide? This book investigates the genetic relationship between Linear A and Linear B, two Bronze Age scripts attested on Crete and Mainland Greece and understood to have developed one out of the other. By using an interdisciplinary methodology, this research integrates linguistic, epigraphic, palaeographic and archaeological evidence, and places the writing practice in its sociohistorical setting. By challenging traditional views, this work calls into question widespread assumptions and interpretative schemes on the relationship between these two scripts, and opens up new perspectives on the ideology associated with the retention, adaptation and transmission of a script, and how identity was negotiated at a moment of closer societal interaction between Cretans and Greek-speaking Mainlanders in the Late Bronze Age. By delving deeper into the structure and inner workings of these two writing systems, this book will make us rethink the relationship between Linear A and B.

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