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Archaeology & Anthropology: Open Access

Decipherment of the Harappan Script: An Assessment

  • Open or Close Ajay Pratap*

    Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, India

    *Corresponding author: Ajay Pratap, Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India

Submission: January 27, 2018; Published: June 27, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/AAOA.2018.02.000534

ISSN: 2577-1949
Volume2 Issue2

Abstract

From Mahadevan [1] pioneering work to Yadav et al. [2] statistical approach to pattern search within the Harappan script, a fact totally overlooked has been that for Harappan Script to be recognized as a script, in which any spoken and or written language may have been inscribed, is that thus far this script has not been found to have been inscribed at what may be called public spaces, in the Harappan Sites excavated thus far. If a script or a likely script is thus not distributed in locations where the encoded messages may be read, then the prospect of this script representing a language of any kind is very weak.

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