Language and Writing of the Indus Valley People
Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Indus civilization
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Author : Shikaripur Ranganatha Rao
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,25 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Indus civilization
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Author : Asko Parpola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521795661
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 : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Harappa Site (Pakistan)
ISBN : 9788120404915
The Book Demonstrates That The Harappan Script Is Well On Its Way To Decipherment.
Author : Walter Ashlin Fairservis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004676759
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 : Shikaripur R. Rao
Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Prabhunath Hembrom
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1646787293
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 : Guy D. Middleton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 15,49 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 110715149X
In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often admitted.
Author : S. M. Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 9781450770613
Author : N. Jha
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Harappa Site (Pakistan)
ISBN :
The present volume is devoted to the study of the Indus script and its decipherment. It offers a methodology for reading the Indus script by combining paleography with ancient literary accounts and Vedic grammar.These illustrate the methodology and also help shed new light on the Harappans and their connections with the Vedic Civilization.The language of the seals is Vedic Sanskrit,with a significant number of them containing words and phrases traceable to the ancient Vedic glossary Nigha, compiled from still earlier sources by Yaska.
Author : Jane Shuter
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2008-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432913359
An introduction to the civilization of the Indus Valley, which began in ca. 3500 B.C.E., including its culture, government, writing system, and more.