Student Research Guide SPQ25/ Evolution of Writing Mediums and Impact on Civilization

My Top Ten Annotated Resources.

• Hayes, Lee. “The Three P’s: Papyrus, Parchment, and Paper.” Special Collections and Archives, Cover to Cover, University of Adelaide, May 2018, https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/collections-archives/ua/media/514/rb-webpage-the-three-ps-papyrus-parchment-paper.pdf .
• • I chose this source because it gives a good lay out of the basic information of each kind of writing material. This source is a really good jumping off point and can lead to using information from it to search for new things and ideas.
• Holsinger, Bruce. “Parchment.” Natural History, vol. 131, no. 2, Feb. 2023, pp. 24–29. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=59686dfc-de04-30bc-bd14-f71ea95417ef.
• • This source gives a really in depth and clear analysis of parchment as a material. It touches on both the scientific and social parts of parchment.
• Hubbe, Martin A., and Cindy Bowden. "Handmade Paper: a Review of its History, Craft, and Science." BioResources, 2009, https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/bbe77186-c701-4cc7-b090-a717c1db6873/content.
• • I chose this source because it specifically touches on how people and civilizations were affected by the creation of paper. It also goes into how paper is created, and how hand making it affects the community for better rather than mass producing it.
• Matthews, Roger, and Amy Richardson. “Cultic Resilience and Inter-City Engagement at the Dawn of Urban History: Protohistoric Mesopotamia and the ’City Seals’, 3200–2750 BC.” World Archaeology, vol. 50, no. 5, Dec. 2018, pp. 723–47. EBSCOhost, https://doi-org.skagit.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/00438243.2019.1592018.
• • While a little reach in connection with writing surfaces, it’s use of tokens and the creation of city seals was really intriguing. It was yet another example of how writing and the use of writing surfaces could affect cultures and communication.
• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe. De Gruyter, 2023, https://sbctc-skagit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01STATEWA_SKAGIT/1k7g980/alma991000814137802822.
• • This article is extremely useful as it is a huge mass of different chapters about the story of paper created by different authors. Each chapter has its own list of references and works they used. It covered almost everything necessary to know about paper and its history.
• “Paper: Quirky Science.” Films On Demand, Films Media Group, 2011, https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102912&xtid=50334.
• • This documentary helped form a layout in my head of when and how writing surfaces were created. It also talks about the near present and computers, which is not really talked about in my other sources.
• Pinarello, Massimiliano. “Challenging a Pseudo-Victorian Elitist Utopia: Writing in Ancient Egypt.” Ancient Egypt Magazine, vol. 18, no. 5, Apr. 2018, pp. 27–31. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=1f8f0753-f958-3207-b92f-e642609aa81a.
• • This article is really interesting, as it talks about how a common trope that is associated with writing. It points out that more than just a few people had access to writing materials and surfaces, and that’s really good to know as it clears other parts of history up.
• Schmandt-Besserat, D. (n.d) The Evolution of Writing. Denise Schmandt-Besserat. https://sites.utexas.edu/dsb/tokens/the-evolution-of-writing/ .
• • This article was extremely important in understanding the creation of both writing surfaces and writing in general. It is good to know the origins of any kind of phenomena, and this is a really good source for this subject.
• Wilson, Hilary. “Papyrus, Papyrus, Everywhere.” Ancient Egypt Magazine, vol. 23, no. 1, Sept. 2022, pp. 52–57. EBSCOhost, research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=979e4d7d-4472-377f-bfe9-e974c4d2d200. 
• • This source helped me understand the significance of the papyrus plant to the Egyptian people. Without this article it is really easy to not catch how significant the plant itself is, and how that affected the use of papyrus as well.
• Yablon, Nick. “Encapsulating the Present: Material Decay, Labor Unrest, and the Prehistory of the Time Capsule, 1876–1914.” Winterthur Portfolio, vol. 45, no. 1, 2011, pp. 1–28. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/658932.
• • This source really helped paint a picture of recent use of parchment. How, instead of using it as average writing materials, it is now used to preserve information.

My Top Keywords when Searching Anywhere.

1. History and parchment or papyrus.
2. History and "paper making".
3. History and writing.
4. Papyrus or parchment.
5. Middle ages and papyrus or parchment.
6. "Writing materials" and advance.
7. Papyrus.
8. Parchment.