Publisher's Synopsis
This first issue of Re: marks, the journal of SIGNUM, gathers a selection of the papers that were presented at the 1st SIGNUM International Conference on Mark Studies, held at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm on October 18th & 19th, 2012. Articles explore the temporal depth and geographic breadth of the use of nonlinguistic marks, following the main conference themes. Contents include: "Some Problems Related to Early Medieval Turkic Tamga-Sign Studies," by Sergey A. Yatsenko; "Type Parlant Coins of the Cities of Asia Minor in the Archaic and Classical Periods," by H. T. Akdogar and M. Tezcan; "Tamgas and Literacy Among the Ancient Iranians," by Niccolo Manassero; "The Study of Lapidary Signs: A Discourse on Method," by Jean-Louis Van Belle; "Publishers' Devices As Indicators of Legal Continuity," by Melinda Simon; "From Marks to Ogham: Rethinking Writing in Gallaecia," by Joam Evans Pim; and "The Mark of Commerce: Uncertainty In Mark Predication," by Oliver Timken Perrin."
