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Author: Bryan K. Wells Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784910473 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 153
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A detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script.
Author: Bryan K. Wells Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784910473 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 153
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A detailed examination of the Indus script. It presents new analysis based on an expansive text corpus using revolutionary analytical techniques developed specifically for the purpose of deciphering the Indus script.
Author: Bryan K. Wells Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: 9781842179949 Category : Indus script Languages : en Pages : 0
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Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing is a comprehensive look at one of the last undeciphered Old World scripts. It has defied decipherment for 90 years because of the terse nature of the texts and the lack of a comprehensive corpus and detailed sign list. This book presents the analysis of a comprehensive, computer-based corpus using the most detailed sign list yet compiled for the Indus script. Custom computer programs allowed the verification of the sign list and the compilation of statistics regarding sign distribution and use. Among the questions addressed are: How do you create an epigraphic database? How do you define a sign? What is the Indus number system like? Where did the Indus script come from? and What is the Indus language(s)? Bryan Wells is an archaeologist, epigrapher, and geographer who has excavated on the west and east coasts of North America and in Baluchistan (Pakistan). Wells has studied the Indus script since 1992, and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University.
Author: Gregory L. Possehl Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1244
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"Part Four is a culture history of the peoples of the Indus Age from the beginnings of food production and domestication of plants and animals to the threshold of civilization in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004676759 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 247
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A description of a methodology by which to decipher the writing of the Harappan civilization. The methodology is then applied and the results set forth in detail. There, results coupled with the author's extensive archaeological knowledge of the Indus Civilization creates a picture of ancient South Asian life much of which in content is unique.
Author: Andrew Robinson Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 1780235410 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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When Alexander the Great invaded the Indus Valley in the fourth century BCE, he was completely unaware that it had once been the center of a civilization that could have challenged ancient Egypt and neighboring Mesopotamia in size and sophistication. In this accessible introduction, Andrew Robinson tells the story—so far as we know it—of this enigmatic people, who lay forgotten for around 4,000 years. Going back to 2600 BCE, Robinson investigates a civilization that flourished over half a millennium, until 1900 BCE, when it mysteriously declined and eventually vanished. Only in the 1920s, did British and Indian archaeologists in search of Alexander stumble upon the ruins of a civilization in what is now northwest India and eastern Pakistan. Robinson surveys a network of settlements—more than 1,000—that covered over 800,000 square kilometers. He examines the technically advanced features of some of the civilization’s ancient cities, such as Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, where archaeologists have found finely crafted gemstone jewelry, an exquisite part-pictographic writing system (still requiring decipherment), apparently Hindu symbolism, plumbing systems that would not be bettered until the Roman empire, and street planning worthy of our modern world. He also notes what is missing: any evidence of warfare, notwithstanding an adventurous maritime trade between the Indus cities and Mesopotamia via the Persian Gulf. A fascinating look at a tantalizingly “lost” civilization, this book is a testament to its artistic excellence, technological progress, economic vigor, and social tolerance, not to mention the Indus legacy to modern South Asia and the wider world.
Author: Asko Parpola Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521795661 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
Author: Dennys Frenez Publisher: Archaeopress Access Archaeology ISBN: 9781784919177 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 640
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This volume, a compilation of original papers written to celebrate the outstanding contributions of Jonathan Mark Kenoyer to the archaeology of South Asia over the past 40 years, highlights recent developments in the archaeological research of ancient South Asia, with specific reference to the Indus Civilisation.
Author: Stephen R. Duren Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492890775 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 156
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Scientist Stephen R. Duren from the University of South Florida presents recent novel findings of monumental importance pertaining to Sanskrit artifacts located in various museums around the world. The reason as to why a Scientist has written a book about Sanskrit archaeology and history is as follows; After confirmation from precise spelling and accurate descriptions of known Sumerian and Hindu deities, precise phonetic spelling of proper names of known civilizations, a comparison to known alphabets, a technical analysis of the Sanskrit language, and obvious embellishments serving as confirmation of various common words such as a picture of a rose next to the word rose, a reed next to the word reed, a moon next to the word moon, a sun with bird face next to a word that means both sun and bird, a man carrying bags next to the word bag-carrier, a vegetable next to the word vegetable, etc.: the ancient writing system of Indus Script, which is thought to have existed circa 1,700-3,000 BCE, has been fully deciphered and the language is the known ancient Sanskrit language. And so, thousands of Indus Script inscriptions have been translated into Sanskrit and then into English, and the most entertaining and historically significant inscriptions have been added into this book, which is meant to be an easy to read and entertaining instruction manual for the reader to learn how to read Indus Script, and by doing so; the reader will gain insight into this exciting time period of the ancient world and the culture of this highly advanced civilization. Although these finding may sound fantastical; the decipherment is presented with overwhelming supporting evidence. Once the reader learns the basics of Indus Script in Chapter 1, the reader will then go on to read a more difficult and older style of Indus Script, which dates back to 3,500 BCE in the Indus Valley city of Harappa (currently thought to be "proto-writing"). And so, as one would imagine: the oldest phonetic writing of the planet is included in this book, which is again the prehistoric parent writing system of Indus Script, called "Sanskrit Script", and these inscriptions explain many historical mysteries pertaining to multiple ancient civilizations outside of the Indus Valley, including prehistoric Sumeria, Egypt, and Europe, for reasons that one would have to read the core evidence in chapters 1-3 to believe (the main reason being that archaeologists have found Sanskrit Script inscriptions in these locations, which are clearly legible, and that these inscriptions have also been misidentified as "proto-writing"). The translation of inscriptions in a time which was previously pre-historic sheds light on multiple aspects of human culture and religion. Lastly, and most shockingly; the data presented in this book suggests that the Minoan alphabet is a later style of Sanskrit Script with additional letters that are seen in the later Phoenician, Greek, and Brahmi Script Alphabets, and therefore; the Minoan alphabet has been correctly identified as the parent writing system of the Phoenician alphabet. Minoan inscriptions pertaining to significant world events, such as the Minoan Volcanic Eruption Event (also recorded in Egyptian Hieroglyphics), are included in this book: including inscriptions detailing the interactions between the Minoans and people with "barely shaped like the beak of a crow"...
Author: Bryan K. Wells
Author: Bryan K. Wells
Author: Bryan K. Wells
Author: Gregory L. Possehl
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Author: Bryan Wells
Author: Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Author: Andrew Robinson
Author: Asko Parpola
Author: Dennys Frenez
Author: Stephen R. Duren