Posted on 09/29/2009 3:17:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Of the identified 429 signs, "a man with jar cup", a symbol unique to the Indus civilisation and other compound letters testified to remnants of the Harappan culture, spanning from 2300 BC to 1700 BC, in South India, Varier, who led the excavation at the caves said. The "man-with-the-jar" symbol, an integral remnant commonly traced in parts where the Indus Valley civilisation existed, has even more similarities than those traced in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, he said. The 'man-with-the-jar' has been a distinct motif of the Indus valley symbols. The Edakkal engraving has retained its unique style as the engraver tried to attain a two-dimensional human figure, Varier said. This could be attributed to the transformation from the distinct symbols of the Indus Valley civilisation that could have taken place in due course of time, he said. The 'jar' is more or less same as those in Indus ligature. But the human figure is a little different. "These symbols form part of compound letters similar to scripts and no concerted efforts appear to have been made in the past to decipher them, with a lone exception by Iravatha Mahadevan (a scholar on the Indus valley civilisation), who could gather valuable ideas from such letters," he said. "The discovery of the symbols are akin to that of the Harappan civilisation having predominantly Dravidian culture and testimony to the fact that cultural diffusion could take place. It is wrong to presume that the Indus culture disappeared into thin air," Varier said.
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It’s late, and I’m barley able to stay awake.
That’s teff...
Please, God, not Jar Jar Binks.
That would explain their disappearance...
I’m semolina response right now.
Interestingly, there’s at least two researchers who think there *is* no language behind the Indus Valley symbols. I thought there’d been a topic about this, but couldn’t lay hands on it.
http://www.ejvs.laurasianacademy.com/ejvs1102/ejvs1102article.pdf
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/%7Ewitzel/mwpage.htm
http://www.safarmer.com/
I’m chaffing at the bit awaiting your reply...
Thanks for the links, FRiend.
Researchers recently found that the Sarasvati Valley symbols are a language. BTW, I don’t care much about Witzel - he is a “progressive” goon who masquerades as an Indologist.
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