Re: VMs: O.T.: The Indus Script--Write or Wrong? (Science)

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	I know little about Indus script and civilization, but I 
tend to agree with Jacques.

	I could use a good Indus Valley Script page to link to from 
my site.  Could any of you recommend one?

Koontz John E wrote:

> > Oddly, the inscriptions are almost all found in trash dumps rather than
> > in graves or in primary contexts such as the floor of a home. "They were
> > thrown away like expired credit cards," says Meadow.
>
> That's not so odd.  Think of the number of labelled broken things we throw
> away.  

	That's where the Phaistos Disk were found, as Jacques 
noted.  I believe Linear A and B were too.

> Without baking in a conflagration clay tablets tend to disintegrate, so
> without accidents or war nothing would remain.  We have the Mycenaean
> materials we have because the sites in question were burnt by invaders.
> At Pylos the notes on the mobilization to oppose the attackers make up a
> portion of the materials preserved.  None of the Mycenaean materials are
> literary.  A few are summary sheets with some running text.

	Do you mean Linear B, etc.?  I didn't know fire had been 
involved.  But this is getting quite OT...

Dennis



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