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Indus Age: The Writing System (review)

Indus Age: The Writing System (review) book reviews 201 Indus Age: The Writing System. Gregory L. Possehl. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyl- vania Press, 1996. xvi‡ 244 pp.; 76 ®gures, 16 plates, 14 tables, bibliography, glos- sary, detailed table of contents, index. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3345-X. Reviewed by Richard Salomon, University of Washington a review of many of these is even worth The Writing System is the ®rst of a projected the e¨ort. Still, some of this makes inter- four volumes in Possehl's Indus Age series. esting reading, if only by way of cautionary The main purpose of the volume is to ``re- tales, as in Possehl's summary ( pp. 90± view the corpus of glyptic material and at- 100) of the theories of a connection be- tempt to assess the present state of knowl- tween Indus script and the rongorongo of edge of the script'' ( p. vii). The e¨ort is Rapanui (Easter Island), in which some justi®ed on the grounds that ``there is no- highly reputed scholars got involved to their where one can turn for an in-depth over- discredit. view on the Indus writing system'' ( p. 1), However, I found Possehl's agnostic at- and that ``[f ]or the most part the corpus http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Perspectives University of Hawai'I Press

Indus Age: The Writing System (review)

Salomon, Richard,
Asian Perspectives , Volume 39 (1) – Jan 1, 2001
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book reviews 201 Indus Age: The Writing System. Gregory L. Possehl. Philadelphia: University of Pennsyl- vania Press, 1996. xvi‡ 244 pp.; 76 ®gures, 16 plates, 14 tables, bibliography, glos- sary, detailed table of contents, index. Hardcover, $49.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3345-X. Reviewed by Richard Salomon, University of Washington a review of many of these is even worth The Writing System is the ®rst of a projected the e¨ort. Still, some of this makes inter- four volumes in Possehl's Indus Age series. esting reading, if only by way of cautionary The main purpose of the volume is to ``re- tales, as in Possehl's summary ( pp. 90± view the corpus of glyptic material and at- 100) of the theories of a connection be- tempt to assess the present state of knowl- tween Indus script and the rongorongo of edge of the script'' ( p. vii). The e¨ort is Rapanui (Easter Island), in which some justi®ed on the grounds that ``there is no- highly reputed scholars got involved to their where one can turn for an in-depth over- discredit. view on the Indus writing system'' ( p. 1), However, I found Possehl's agnostic at- and that ``[f ]or the most part the corpus

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