Indus Script Analysis

Author : Rama Sarker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 8185616701

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Indus Script & It's Language by Rama Sarker Pdf

This Book Being The First Critical Assessment Of All Significant Attempts At Decipherment Of The Indus Script And Technicalities Involved In The Models, Explains How A Breakthrough In Decipherment Has Been Achieved As A Sequel To Scientific Analysis. It Has Highlighted The Progress Made In Decoding The Indus People. The Structural Analysis Of The Indus Script Not Only Meets This Desideratum But Also Throws New Light On The Different Approaches To The Problems. It Has Convincingly Demonstrated That The Failure By Most Scholars To Carry The Structural Analysis Of All The Compound Signs In The Indus Script To Its Logical Conclusion And A-Priori Assumptions Of A Language Of Their Choice Were The Stumbling Block. It Has Cleared The Mystery Of The So-Called Undecipherable Script And Brought Together All The Ramifications Of Analysis And Interpretation By Various Scholars And Examined Objectively. The Stages Of Development In Identification Of Basic Signs Of The Dug Script Has Been Explained Vividly Kith Adequate Analytical Charts And Examples And The Languages And The Languages As Old Indo-Aryan In Compariosn With Those Of A Known Script. It Has Rendered Signal Service To The Scholarly World By Providing Basic Data Needed For Understanding The Intricacies Of A Mixed Writing Of Bygone Days.

Author : Michael Korvink
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1501087487

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Indus Script Analysis: Concordance Tables by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the first collection in the series.

Author : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1502332434

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Indus Script Analysis by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the third collection in the series.

Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024851357

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The Decipherment of the Indus Script by Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao Pdf

Author : Sandira Segaran
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1502324121

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Indus Script Analysis: Concordance Tables Volume II by Sandira Segaran Pdf

After ninety years of research, the Indus Script still remains un-deciphered. It is because of non-discovery of any bilingual or multi-lingual inscriptions like Rosetta Stone in the case of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This handicap is being slowly overcome by the analytical methods that can be used in the computational research of the Indus Script. I have recently developed a software program to analyse the signs and inscriptions of Indus Script. The program helps one to formulate concordance tables for any pre-assigned combination of signs. Thousands of such concordance tables can be generated by the computer program on the fly. Some of such tables are offered to the other research scholars in several collections. This is the second collection in the series.

Author : Bryan K. Wells
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521795664

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Deciphering the Indus Script by Asko Parpola Pdf

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 : Prabhunath Hembrom
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646787296

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Indus Valley Civilization Script Decoded by Prabhunath Hembrom Pdf

Scientists discover Y-DNA haplogroups O2a and mt-DNA haplogroup M4a in the Rakhigarhi ancient DNA. These haplogroups are associated with the speakers of Austro-Asiatic languages such as Mundari, Santali and Khasi. These haplogroups and related languages are also present in Southeast Asia. In India, speakers of these languages are currently found mostly in Central and East India. Even though a prominent philologist of Harvard University, Mr. Michael Witzel, has argued the case for a language close to Munda (which he calls para-Mundari) being one of the languages of the erstwhile Indus Valley, a finding of this nature will come as a surprise to most others. So if the genetics do find haplogroups O and M4a in Rakhigarhi, some of our current understanding of Indian history may have to be revised. Tony Joseph in The Hindu, December 23, 2017

Author : G. R. Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015053389238

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The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and Its Connection with Other Scripts by G. R. Hunter Pdf

Description: The present work is a reissue of the 1934 edition published from London. The Material for this work was provided by some 750 inscribed objects unearthed at the sites in Mohenjodaro and Harappa. These copper coins were also found, and some slabs of clay impressed. The work was first in the study of these scripts, so it was its methodology. The method adopted was to tabulate every occurrence of each sign together with those signs whose morphography suggested the possibility of their being variants. In this way certain sign sequences showed themselves to be of common occurrence. Thus it was possible to recognize variants and also words. The author has also compared these scripts with other scripts, viz. Proto-Elamite and Sumerian scripts, bringing out resemblance between them and suggested that the connection could be due to community of descent or borrowing, which was still to be determined then. Printed Pages: 242 with 4 charts and 37 line drawing plates. Abstract List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Descriptive Catalogue of the Texts 3. Direction of the writing 4. Connection with other Scripts 5. Analysis of the Tables of Signs 6. Tables with Sign-list

Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Sandiras Segarane Gurunathan
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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ABC of Harappan Script and Language by Sandiras Segarane Gurunathan Pdf

The book may rightly be described as the first-hand information to the world about the Indus Script finally cracked. Unlike the earlier publications on the Enigmatic Indus Script, the present book. For the first time, the logical methodology of Scientific Formal Theory as used by the age-old Geometry and later Theoretical Physics has been successfully adopted in the decipherment of the Indus Script. Computer-aided approach has all along been the order of the day. A software entitled Indus Script Analyzer developed by the author has been extensively used in the examination, analysis, and interpretation of the Indus inscriptions.An exclusive Indus Script Font developed as well by the author and called Sandira-Harappan.ttf has been used for typing Indus Signs. Names of well-known rural deities, city names, and names of professionals have been identified.A Glossary of Deciphered Indus Signs and a Glossary of Interpreted Indus texts are included in the book.

Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.