What it's used for here
Damerow's argument that proto-cuneiform is proto-writing: a knowledge-representation system with little or no phonetic coding, judged on its own terms rather than as deficient writing; sign-frequency statistics (about 530 signs once, about 104 over 100 times). Cuneiform Digital Library Journal 2006:1. CC BY 4.0.
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Research copy, for editors and curators. The work is the publisher's, so readers are sent to it. We keep this copy so the citation can be checked if the page changes or goes.
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Cite it
Peter Damerow (2006). The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology. https://cdli.earth/articles/cdlj/2006-1
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. “The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology.” 2006.