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Media: Science Magazine: The Indus Script--Write or Wrong
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Science Magazine: The Indus Script--Write or Wrong
Message 1: Science Magazine: The Indus Script--Write or Wrong
Date: 18-Dec-2004
From: Chilin Shih <clsuiuc.edu>
Subject: Science Magazine: The Indus Script--Write or Wrong
This week's Science Magazine (17 December, 2004. Vol. 306 No. 5704)
features an article on the Indus Valley Script, asking whether it is a
writing system or not. This article is based on collaborative work of
Steve Farmer, an independent comparative historian from Portola Valley,
California; Richard Sproat, a computational linguist from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Michael Witzel, Wales Professor of Sanskrit
from Harvard University.
Science Magazine (http://www.sciencemag.org/) is by subscription only, and is
accessible through most university library systems.
The research article that the Science report is based on, 'The Collapse of
the Indus-Script Thesis: The Myth of a Literate Harappan Civilization' by
Farmer, Sproat, and Witzel, is accessible at:
http://compling.ai.uiuc.edu/indus/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Writing Systems
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