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We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled.... indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Born: December 2, 1940 (age 84)

Bio: Elizabeth Wayland Barber is an American author and expert on textiles, as well as Professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College.

Known for:

The mummies of Ürümchi (1999)
Prehistoric textiles (1991)
When they severed earth from sky (2004)

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