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Earlier Attempts at Indus Sign Decipherment (477 words) |
 | With rare intellectual courage he has now abandoned the paradigm central to the earlier Finnish model of decipherment and has made a virtually fresh beginning. |
| The analysis is sound; but his model of decipherment based on the Dravidian hypothesis (published in 1992 shortly before his death) has not been taken seriously because of his lack of familiarity with the Dravidian languages and linguistic techniques. |
| n his brief review of the earlier attempts at decipherment of the Indus script, Parpola takes no notice of the models based on the Indo-Aryan hypothesis, presumably because there is hardly anything in common between them and his own work. |
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Iconography Decipherment (0 words) |
| There are some parts of his decipherment which I don't personally agree with but none the less it was pioneering work driven by determination and excellent intuition. |
| Because of the many references and depth of study her work cannot really be ignored in the context of Neolithic interpretation and as such she is worthy of the additional label 'Archaeomythologist". |
| These then are the main players in Neolithic decipherment studies; what I hope to do is further extend some of these findings into another direction and maybe come up with an even more unique decipherment. |
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