13 Facts About Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Denise Schmandt-Besserat was born on August 10, 1933 in Ay, Marne, France and is a French-American archaeologist and retired professor of art and archaeology of the ancient Near East.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's spent much of her professional career as a professor at the University of Texas.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's is best known for her work on the history and invention of writing.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat Besserat was born into a family of lawyers and winemakers.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's met her future husband, Jurgen Schmandt, in Bonn in 1954; they were married in 1956.

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Denise Schmandt-Besserat's graduated in 1965, after which the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her husband had been offered employment.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's applied for a fellowship at Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, to study the origins of the use of clay as a writing material in the Middle East.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat has worked on the origin of writing and counting, and the nature of information management systems in oral societies.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's retired in 2004 as Professor of Art and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's showed that, before writing, art of the ancient Near East mostly consisted of repetitive motifs.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's continues her research on Neolithic symbolism at the site of 'Ain Ghazal, near Amman, Jordan.

Denise Schmandt-Besserat's been cited Outstanding Woman in the Humanities by the American Association of University Women.

Correspondences between tokens and numerical impressions suggest that tokens were used as numerical counters in the 4th millennium BC; though Denise Schmandt-Besserat is often credited as discovering them, the correspondences were initially noticed and published by French archaeologists Pierre Amiet and Maurice Lambert and other scholars.