# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denise-schmandt-besserat
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:25:48.426Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denise-schmandt-besserat"
name: "Denise Schmandt-Besserat"
slug: "denise-schmandt-besserat"
description: "Denise Schmandt-Besserat is a French-American archaeologist and retired professor of art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. She spent much of her professional career as a professor at the University of Texas. She is best known for her work on the history and invention of writing. While her research is highly cited, it has been controversial among scholars. The controversies, as detailed below, concern the interpretation of early tokens, particularly the complex ones; however, the idea that writing emerged out of the counting, cataloging, management, and transactions of agricultural produce has been largely accepted."
tagline: "Professor of Art and Archaeology (born 1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denise_Schmandt-Besserat.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1933-08-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.6106870229007634
  historical:           10.48167866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 113
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3kAiAhB0Q_u51BJigLvZ7g"
    handle:    "@bulla.accounting.system"
    followers: 113
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    title: "دينيس ستشماندت بيسيرات"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Denise Schmandt-Besserat"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump