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1 Now You See It; Now You Don't! The Disappearance of the Linear A Script on Crete John Bennet Bennet, John 1
2 The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Hieroglyphic Luwian J. David Hawkins Hawkins, J. David 31
3 The Obsolescence and Demise of Cuneiform Writing in Elam Jeremy Black Black, Jeremy 45
4 Increasingly Redundant: The Growing Obsolescence of the Cuneiform Script in Babylonia from 539 B.C David Brown Brown, David 73
Postscript: Redundancy Reconsidered: Reflections on David Brown's Thesis Jerrold Cooper Cooper, Jerrold 103
5 Script Obsolescence in Ancient Italy: From Pre-Roman to Roman Writing Kathryn Lomas Lomas, Kathryn 109
6 Whatever Happened to Kharosthi? The Fate of a Forgotten India Script Richard Salomon Salomon, Richard 139
7 On the Demise of Egyptian Writing: Working with Problematic Source Basis Martin Andreas Stadler Stadler, Martin Andreas 157
8 The Last Traces of Meroitic? A Tentative Scenario for the Disappearance of the Meroitic Script Claude Rilly Rilly, Claude 183
9 The Phoenix of Phoinikeia: Alphabetic Reincarnation in Arabia M. C. A. Macdonald Macdonald, M. C. A. 207
10 The Small Deaths of Maya Writing Stephen D. Houston Houston, Stephen D. 231
11 The Death of Mexican Pictography Elizabeth Hill Boone Boone, Elizabeth Hill 253
12 Late Khipu Use Frank Salomon Salomon, Frank 285
13 Disappearance of Writing Systems: The Manchu Case Giovanni Stary Stary, Giovanni 311
14 Revelatory Scripts, 'the Unlettered Genius', and the Appearance and Disappearance of Writing John Monaghan Monaghan, John 323
15 History without Text Chris Gosden Gosden, Chris 335
16 Writing and its Multiple Disappearances JohnBaines Baines, John 347
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