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The Indus Script -- Write or Wrong?
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Science . 12/17/2004, Vol. 306 Issue 5704, p2026-2029. 4p. 7 Color Photographs, 1 Map. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This article informs that for 130 years scholars have struggled to decipher the Indus script. Now, in a proposal with broad academic and political implications, a brash outsider claims that such efforts are doomed to failure because the Indus symbols are not writing. That claim is part of a bitter clash among academics, as well as between Western scientists and Indian nationalists, over the nature of the Indus society, a clash that has led to shouting matches and death threats. But the provocative proposal, summed up in a paper published online last week, is winning adherents within the small community of Indus scholars who say it is time to rethink an enigmatic society that spanned a vast area in today's Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan, the largest civilization of its day. INSETS: Splendid Sewers, But Little Sculpture;Outsider Revels in Breaking Academic Taboos.
- Subjects :
- *INDUS script
*INDIC inscriptions
*SOCIETIES
*PUBLISHING
*CIVILIZATION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00368075
- Volume :
- 306
- Issue :
- 5704
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15492893
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.306.5704.2026