[vannrox]

Very Exciting!

[Joee]

Wonder how he'd do with the Tax Code???

[arthurus]

Immanuel Velikovsky had some interesting theories also.

[lds23]

You might find "The Golden Bough" interesting. Also, you may want to try some Mircea Eliade (e.g., "Cosmos & History").

[an amused spectator]

Check this out!

[an amused spectator]

http://www.engr.mun.ca/~asharan/bihar/indus/indus~3.htm

[Ranger]

For the unwashed masses like myself, what does this mean?

[norton]

It seems that everyone in the universe has a grandsire who invented the light bulb/a father who invented powered flight, a somewhat greater grandsire who invented speech, and another who was married to the mother of all humankind.

OK, So what?

History is fun and educational (such as, if you don't know it, you will repeat it).

Unfurtunately, what is critical is what is done today, less critical might by WHY it is being done, and not critical at all is who did it first.

Unless you are a democrat.

I don't really care who "Eve" was or whether or not whe was my ancestor and yours, or yours alone.

What I do care about is which of here offspring can be trusted and which cannot.
Which can be relied upon most of the time not to try to kill me and those who want whatever I've got, for free, and because some distant bozo believes that it is OK for him or her to take it from me...."Because".

So. OK; reorganize history. Science does that all the time (without apology for the false theories it proposed previously)...just don't pretend that it makes any difference today.

'Cause it don't!

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG homepage, not sending a general distribution.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on or off the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.

[aruanan]

...genetic and radical changes in the current world history books.

Ha ha ha. I love the way these Indians/Pakistanis use English. But don't laugh or draw their attention to it or they'll get really PO'd. Once, when I was in high school, an Indian student was going to take a picture of me. I suggested that he place a spotlight above my head so my Afro would be illuminated, leaving my face in shadow. He dismissed my suggestions saying, "You don't know anything about PHO-to-graphy." I replied saying, "That's okay. You don't even know how to say it." Umm mmm. That really frosted him. These guys (and most of the other males from the Muslim/Hindu Sotadic Zone) take themselves WAY too seriously. Latin American machismo looks Doris Day in comparison.

[SunkenCiv]

from the following title:

Parpula's two volumes of photographs covering the collections of India and Pakistan, which appeared in 1987 and 1991... and his 1994 sign list, containing 386 signs (as against Mahadevan's 419 signs), are generally recognized as fine achievements, not least by Mahadevan... This is a significant figure. It is too high for a syllabary like Linear B... and too low for a highly logographic script like Chinese. the nearest comparison... are probably the Hittite hieroglyphs with about 500 signs and Sumerian cuneiform with perhaps 600+ signs... Most scholars therefore agree that the Indus script is likely to be a logosyllabic script like its west Asian contemporaries. [pp 281-284]

These Dravidian speakers are presumably remnants of a once-widespread Dravidian culture submerged by encroaching Indo-Aryans in the 2nd millennium BC... The Indo-Aryan hymns, the Vedas... recount tales of conquest of the forts of the dark-skinned Dasa or Dasyu... the Vedas repeatedly mention the horse in their descriptions of warfare and sacrifice, and this animal was clearly a vital part of Indo-Aryan society... But there is not horse imagery at all in the Indus Valley civilization and virtually no horse remains have been found by archaeologists. Hence the Indus civilizations is unlikely to have been Indo-Aryan. [pp 290-291]

Robinson mentions "a substantial inscription found at Dholavira near the coast of Kutch in 1990, which appears to have been a kind of sign board for the city." [p 295]

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Lost Languages: The Enigma Of The World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson

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Uncracked Ancient Codes
(Lost Languages reviewed)
by William C. West

Sanskrit and early Dravidian, the ancient languages of India, seem to be the keys to deciphering the highly challenging script of the Indus Valley civilization of the third millennium b.c. in what is now Pakistan and northwest India. As with other languages, a photographic corpus of drawings, a sign list and a concordance must be compiled before decipherment will be possible. Work has proceeded along these lines for inscriptions on some 3,700 objects from the Indus Valley, most of them seal stones with very brief inscriptions (the longest has only 26 characters)... Robinson's descriptions of such analysis, and his accounts of both successful and unsuccessful decoding attempts, are clear, provocative and stimulating.