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Journal articles on the topic "Indus script"

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Salomon, Richard, and Asko Parpola. "Deciphering the Indus Script." Journal of the American Oriental Society 116, no. 4 (October 1996): 745. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/605446.

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Coulmas, Florian, and Asko Parpola. "Deciphering the Indus Script." Language 72, no. 1 (March 1996): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416809.

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Maurer, Walter Harding, and S. R. Rao. "The Decipherment of the Indus Script." Journal of the American Oriental Society 105, no. 2 (April 1985): 374. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/601743.

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Robinson, Andrew. "Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script." Nature 526, no. 7574 (October 2015): 499–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/526499a.

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Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark. ": Deciphering the Indus Script . Asko Parpola." American Anthropologist 98, no. 1 (March 1996): 198–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1996.98.1.02a00470.

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Parpola, Asko. "The Indus script: A challenging puzzle." World Archaeology 17, no. 3 (February 1986): 399–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.1986.9979979.

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Saini, Sujata, Hiroki Shibata, and Yasufumi Takama. "Construction of Handwritten Indus Signs Dataset Employing Social Approach." Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 28, no. 1 (January 20, 2024): 122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jaciii.2024.p0122.

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This paper constructs a dataset of handwritten Indus signs employing a social approach. A writing system called the Indus script was created in the Indus civilization. It has been decoded numerous times throughout the years, but it has not yet been fully deciphered. Due to a lack of information and the scarcity of evidence, the mystery of the Indus signs has not yet been fully solved. Recently, there has been an increase in demand for huge datasets in order to use cutting-edge machine learning techniques. Considering the restricted availability of images of authentic Indus signs, this paper proposes creating an Indus signs dataset by asking participants to draw the Indus signs while referring to the image of the original Indus signs. A web application was developed and used to collect the 44 participants’ handwritten images of ten Indus signs. To show the availability of the constructed dataset, it is used to train convolutional neural networks. The experimental result demonstrates that the model can classify the images of original Indus script with 70% accuracy.

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C Jyothibabu. "Iravatham Mahadevan’s Reading of Indus Script: A Critical Review." Studia Orientalia Electronica 11, no. 1 (May 2, 2023): 1–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.23993/store.85246.

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This paper comprehensively summarizes, analyses, and reviews Iravatham Mahadevan’s attempts to decipher the Indus script. Spanning a period of over thirty five years, Iravatham Mahadevan made continuous attempts to interpret and decipher the Indus script. Mahadevan claimed to have adapted the method of parallels between the symbolic representation and the text, between the written object and its designation, between the written symbol itself and its meaning, and the similarity throughout the ancient East of certain portions of the inscriptions, with the assumption that the underlying language of the script is Dravidian. Mahadevan was very flexible in changing his views and finding new interpretations, and gradually he shifted his interpretation of Indus signs from being phonetic/logographic/word to ideographic, leaving unshaken his core personal hypothesis and belief in the Veḷier clan and Tamil cultural settings. While Mahadevan did not succeed in making a self-consistent system of readings applicable to a large number of discovered pieces of writings, he did make a determined, persistent effort to develop a Dravidian framework for deciphering of the Indus script. This study seeks to find weaknesses in the methodology and assumptions of Mahadevan and searches for possible alternatives within that framework.

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During Caspers, Elisabeth C. L. "The MBAC and the Harappan Script." Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 5, no. 1 (1999): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157005799x00052.

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AbstractThe article deals with interpretation of inscriptions consisting of Indus characters recovered outside the boundaries of the Indus Valley, primarily in Arabian Gulf regions and in Southern Mesopotamia. The author makes a supposition that inscriptions on foreign (non-Harappan) seals and objects with non-Harappan sign sequences and/or inclusion of non-Harappan signs could belong not to the so-called "new Sumerians," acculturated and integrated Meluhhans who lived in the Gulf region, but to the Murghabo-Bactrians who had come to the Arabian Gulf and Southern Mesopotamia. The latter could have acquired some knowledge of the Harappan script and language at their home in Central Asia.

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During Caspers, Elisabeth C. L. "The Mbac and the Harappan Script." Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 5, no. 3 (1999): 40–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157005799x00115.

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AbstractThe article deals with interpretation of inscriptions consisting of Indus characters recovered outside the boundaries of the Indus Valley, primarily in Arabian Gulf regions and in Southern Mesopotamia. The author makes a supposition that inscriptions on foreign (non-Harappan) seals and objects with non-Harappan sign sequences and/or inclusion of non-Harappan signs could belong not to the so-called "new Sumerians," acculturated and integrated Meluhhans who lived in the Gulf region, but to the Murghabo-Bactrians who had come to the Arabian Gulf and Southern Mesopotamia. The latter could have acquired some knowledge of the Harappan script and language at their home in Central Asia.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Indus script"

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Sarker, Rama. "Structural analysis of Indus script and evaluating basic signs to determine the language of Indus people." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1184.

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Zaid, Sareeta. "The Indus Civilisation: A contextual approach to script." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29416.

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The undeciphered script of the Indus Civilisation has been an enigma from the first publication of a stamp seal with inscription in 1875. Comparative linguistic, historical and data science approaches have been utilised for over a century to decipher this script, but these remain inconclusive due to the short nature of the inscriptions and lack of bilingual texts. Scholars have suggested that a contextual, archaeological approach to considering the inscribed artefact types, materials, and other characteristics is essential to gain further insight into the purpose and use of this script. This project explores the archaeological context of this undeciphered script through examination of features of inscribed artefacts and their contextual distribution at the sites of Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Lothal, Chanhudaro, Dholavira, Surkotada, Rakhigarhi and Farmana. Through in-depth frequency and relational analysis, it has been demonstrated that Indus inscribed artefacts occur consistently in association with other artefacts such as weights, beads, and inscribed animal and human figurines, and are found in a diverse range of archaeological contexts, including public, domestic, commercial, rubbish and funerary. The immersion of these inscribed artefacts into all facets of Indus life indicates that the use of this script was not limited to the wealthy or elite class, and that there may have been widespread literacy in Indus society, with individuals from all walks of life using seals, bas-relief and incised tablets and other inscribed artefacts for administrative, exchange, identification, ritual, and aesthetic purposes. This insight into the purpose and meanings of inscribed artefacts as an element of the Harappan “veneer” provides a foundation for future studies into the Indus script across sites of the Indus Civilisation.

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Hunter, G. R. "The script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its connection with other scripts." New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal, 1993. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/30421593.html.

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LeBlanc, Paul D. "Indus Epigraphic Perspectives: Exploring Past Decipherment Attempts & Possible New Approaches." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26166.

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First appearing on potsherds around 3300 BC, the Indus script was primarily in use during the Mature Harappan period (ca. 2600-1900 BC) in the Indus Valley region, centred in the north-western region of the Indian Subcontinent. It is one of the last remaining undeciphered scripts of the ancient world. A great number of Indus inscriptions, however, have been uncovered at many archaeological sites in the Persian Gulf, discoveries that corroborate the inclusion of the Indus civilization as an active participant in the Mesopotamian-dominated Gulf trade of the 3rd millennium. In addition to exploring the current state of research surrounding the Indus decipherment attempts, the thesis will examine new perspectives on ancient history, arguing in favour of various possibilities of Mesopotamian, Elamite, and/or pre-dynastic Egyptian (North East African) cultural presences or influences in the ancient Indus River basin.

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Sampath, Vinodh Rajan. "Quantifying scribal behavior : a novel approach to digital paleography." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9429.

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We propose a novel approach for analyzing scribal behavior quantitatively using information about the handwriting of characters. To implement this approach, we develop a computational framework that recovers this information and decomposes the characters into primitives (called strokes) to create a hierarchically structured representation. We then propose a number of intuitive metrics quantifying various facets of scribal behavior, which are derived from the recovered information and character structure. We further propose the use of techniques modeling the generation of handwriting to directly study the changes in writing behavior. We then present a case study in which we use our framework and metrics to analyze the development of four major Indic scripts. We show that our framework and metrics coupled with appropriate statistical methods can provide great insight into scribal behavior by discovering speciﬁc trends and phenomena with quantitative methods. We also illustrate the use of handwriting modeling techniques in this context to study the divergence of the Brahmi script into two daughter scripts. We conduct a user study with domain experts to evaluate our framework and salient results from the case study, and we elaborate on the results of this evaluation. Finally, we present our conclusions and discuss the limitations of our research along with future work that needs to be done.

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Books on the topic "Indus script"

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University of Sind. Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, ed. Indus script. Jamshoro: Department of Archaeology Anthropology, University of Sindh, 2012.

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Mativāṇan̲, Irāman̲. Indus script Dravidian. Madras: Tamil Chanror Peravai, 1995.

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Sharma, Deo Prakash. Deciphrment [i.e. decipherment] of Harappan script. Delhi: Pratibha Prakashan, 2011.

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Sharma, Deo Prakash. Deciphrment [i.e. decipherment] of Harappan script. Delhi: Pratibha Prakashan, 2011.

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Newberry, John. Indus seal-script of Lothal. Victoria, B.C., Canada: J. Newberry, 1986.

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Mativāṇan̲, Irāman̲. Indus script among Dravidian speakers. Madras: International Society for the Investigation of Ancient Civilizations, 1995.

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Newberry, John. Indus seal-script of Lothat. Victoria, B.C: John Newberry, 1986.

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Tanwar, Satyabir Singh. A study of Indus script. New Delhi, India: Paragon International Publishers, 2016.

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Subbarayappa, B. V. Indus script: Its nature and structure. Madras: New Era Publications, 1996.

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Alʹbedilʹ, M. F. Protoindiĭskai͡a︡ t͡s︡ivilizat͡s︡ii͡a︡: Ocherki kulʹtury. Moskva: Vostochnai͡a︡ literatura, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Indus script"

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"The Buddhist Indus Script." In The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures, 9–64. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb7m5.8.

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"The Indus Valley Script." In The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing, 4–12. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr43jmf.9.

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Parpola, Asko. "The Indus Religion and the Indus Script." In The Roots of Hinduism, 25–32. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190226909.003.0005.

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Parpola, Asko. "Religion in the Indus Script." In The Roots of Hinduism, 266–93. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190226909.003.0021.

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Rao, Rajesh P. N. "The Indus Script and Economics." In Walking with the Unicorn: Social Organization and Material Culture in Ancient South Asia, 518–25. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv19vbgkc.38.

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"Proto-Dravidian and the Indus Script." In The Archaeology and Epigraphy of Indus Writing, 77–99. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvr43jmf.14.

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During Caspers, Elisabeth C. L. "Some Thoughts on the Indus Script." In Indian Art and Archaeology, 54–67. BRILL, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004646070_006.

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"Front Matter." In The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures, i—vi. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb7m5.1.

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"Epilogue." In The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures, 211–20. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb7m5.10.

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"Bibliography." In The Buddhist Indus Script and Scriptures, 221–44. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb7m5.11.

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Conference papers on the topic "Indus script"

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Venkatesh, Varun, and Ali Farghaly. "Deciphering the Indus Script: Decoding Missing and Unclear Indus signs and Identifying Anomalous Indus texts from West Asia using Markov Chain Language Models." In 2023 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/isec57711.2023.10402308.

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VanOrsdale, Josey, Jigyasa Chauhan, Sai Vivek Potlapally, Srikar Chanamolu, Sai Pratyush Reddy Kasara, and Peter Zsolt Revesz. "Measuring Vowel Harmony within Hungarian, the Indus Valley Script Language, Spanish and Turkish Using ERGM." In IDEAS'22: International Database Engineered Applications Symposium. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3548785.3548788.

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Barla, Sarat Sasank, Sai Surya Sanjay Alamuru, and Peter Zsolt Revesz. "Feature Analysis of Indus Valley and Dravidian Language Scripts with Similarity Matrices." In IDEAS'22: International Database Engineered Applications Symposium. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3548785.3548801.

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