Table of Contents

1) Theories of meaning and archaeology; 2) Nonverbal meaning as implicit deixis in archaeology ; 3) Verbal and nonverbal sign interaction in Mesopotamian domestic space; 4) Dynamic interaction of semiotic systems through the house cycle; 5) The spatial dimension of legal and technical discourse; 6) The ethnographic dimension of verbal and nonverbal semiosis; 7) The body in language: towards a theory of the relation between verbal and nonverbal meaning in archaeology

About the Author

Paolo Brusasco has carried out archaeological excavations in Iraq, Syria, Italy and the Mediterranean, and, based at Turin University, currently lectures also at the University of Genova, Italy. His publications include Family Archives and The Social Use of Space in Old Babylonian Houses at Ur (2000).

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