Epigraphic Approaches To Indus Writing

Author : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Indus script
ISBN : 1842179942

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Epigraphic Approaches to Indus Writing by Bryan K. Wells Pdf

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 : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784910471

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The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing by Bryan K. Wells Pdf

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 : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004676756

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The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing by Walter Ashlin Fairservis Pdf

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 : András Benczúr,Bernhard Thalheim,Tomáš Horváth,Silvia Chiusano,Tania Cerquitelli,Csaba Sidló,Peter Z. Revesz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030000639

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New Trends in Databases and Information Systems by András Benczúr,Bernhard Thalheim,Tomáš Horváth,Silvia Chiusano,Tania Cerquitelli,Csaba Sidló,Peter Z. Revesz Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed short papers, workshops and doctoral consortium papers of the 22th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2018, held in Budapest, Hungary, in September 2018. The 20 full and the 4 short workshop papers as well as the 3 doctoral consortium papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions to the workshops and 6 submissions to the doctoral consortium. Furthermore, there are 10 short papers included, which were accepted for the main conference. The papers are organized according to the 6 workshops and the doctoral consortium: ADBIS 2018 short papers; First Workshop on Advances on Big Data Management, Analytics, Data Privacy and Security, BigDataMAPS 2018; First International Workshop on New Frontiers on Meta-data Management and Usage, M2U 2018; First Citizen Science Applications and Citizen Databases Workshop, CSADB 2018; First International Workshop on Articial Intelligence for Question Answering, AI*QA 2018; First International Workshop on BIG Data Storage, Processing and Mining for Personalized MEDicine, BIGPMED 2018; First Workshop on Current Trends in Contemporary Information Systems and Their Architectures, ISTREND 2018; Doctoral Consortium.

Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Harappa Site (Pakistan)
ISBN : 8120404912

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The Harappan Civilization and Its Writing by Walter Ashlin Fairservis Pdf

The Book Demonstrates That The Harappan Script Is Well On Its Way To Decipherment.

Author : Bryan Wells,Early Sites Research Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Indus civilization
ISBN : OCLC:873937903

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An Introduction to Indus Writing by Bryan Wells,Early Sites Research Society Pdf

Author : Michael Korvink
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780615182391

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The Indus Script: A Positional-Statistical Approach by Michael Korvink Pdf

Since the discovery of the Indus Civilization, the meaning of the enigmatic Indus script remains hidden in its four hundred characters. While many would-be-decipherers have attempted to unravel its meaning with the aid of a presumed underlying language, none of these attempts has proven successful. In response, the approach taken in this work does not preclude an underlying language, but offers an alternate approach where the positional patterns of the Indus signs are investigated in an attempt to segment the character strings. Michael Korvink is a former instructor of International Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and now works in the private sector.

Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024851357

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The Decipherment of the Indus Script by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao Pdf

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780235417

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The Indus by Andrew Robinson Pdf

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 : Rajat K Pal
Publisher : Chirayata
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Reading the Indus- Sarasvati Script by Rajat K Pal Pdf

In this book writer used a different technique to decipher Indus script via phonetic values of basic Indus signs, vowel diacritics ,letters used to mention quantity (number, volume and weight) etc. He has gone through the pottery inscriptions first and tablets thereafter and then discussed about the names and other words found in Indus seals and inscribed on other items. Out of 4000 inscriptions found so far , of which 2000 are still readable, Rajat was able to read 1,296 Sarasvati Scripts, it took 15 years. Now all his methods and the journey to decipher the Script has been put into this book.

Author : William H. Stiebing Jr.,Susan N. Helft
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000880663

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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture by William H. Stiebing Jr.,Susan N. Helft Pdf

Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture offers an historical overview of the civilizations of the ancient Near East spanning ten thousand years of history. This new edition is a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of the Near East, from prehistory and the beginnings of farming to the fall of Achaemenid Persia. Through text, images, maps, and historical documents, readers discover the material, social, and political world of cultures from Egypt to India, allowing students to see how these intertwined cultures interacted throughout history. Now fully updated and incorporating the latest scholarship on society, religion, and the economy, this book highlights the changing fortunes of these great civilizations. A special feature of this book is its many "Debating the Evidence" sections, where the reader becomes familiar with scholarly disputes concerning the interpretation of textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of topics and case studies. The fourth edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture remains a crucial textbook for undergraduates and general readers studying the ancient Near East, particularly the political and social history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as students of archaeology and biblical studies who are working on the region.

Author : B.S.Harishankar
Publisher : Indus Scrolls Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cultural Terrorism - Conflicts and Debates On Cultural Pasts by B.S.Harishankar Pdf

The collection of twenty one articles by B.S.Harishankar contemplates recent approaches on various aspects of India’s cultural past in a global context. The work discusses intervention by colonial and post colonial groups on our archaeology, anthropology and historiography and the changing dimensions of our social and cultural perspectives. The essays have been grouped thematically in four sections comprehending various themes. It includes dimensions of cultural terrorism, eastern and western nationalisms, Aryan issues, imperial census, colonial castes, dalit and subaltern issues, Ramayana, Mahabharata and cultural geography, Abhinava Gupta’s legacy and Kashmir’s connectivity with greater India, traditional knowledge systems, classical Tamil and the greater Indian tradition, global alignment between Marxism and church, crusades and its current impact on west Asia and Europe, Indo Jewish fraternity, foreign interventions at Pattanam and Keezhadi archaeological sites, and espionage in global universities by left and Wahabbi groups. B.S.Harishankar is an archaeologist historian and has authored seven books.

Author : Michael P. Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789027270139

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Literary Detective Work on the Computer by Michael P. Oakes Pdf

Computational linguistics can be used to uncover mysteries in text which are not always obvious to visual inspection. For example, the computer analysis of writing style can show who might be the true author of a text in cases of disputed authorship or suspected plagiarism. The theoretical background to authorship attribution is presented in a step by step manner, and comprehensive reviews of the field are given in two specialist areas, the writings of William Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the various writing styles seen in religious texts. The final chapter looks at the progress computers have made in the decipherment of lost languages. This book is written for students and researchers of general linguistics, computational and corpus linguistics, and computer forensics. It will inspire future researchers to study these topics for themselves, and gives sufficient details of the methods and resources to get them started.

Author : J. V. Kinnier Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Indus script
ISBN : UCAL:B3736453

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Indo-Sumerian by J. V. Kinnier Wilson Pdf

Author : Leonhard Sassmannshausen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004260757

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He Has Opened Nisaba's House of Learning by Leonhard Sassmannshausen Pdf

In He has Opened Nisaba’s House of Learning twenty-six scholars honor Åke Sjöberg, professor emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania and former editor of the Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary. The twenty-one studies included focus on Mesopotamian wisdom literature, religious texts, cultural concepts, the history of writing, material culture, society, and law from the invention of writing to the Hellenistic period. The volume includes editions of several previously unpublished texts.