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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.
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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.
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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Born:
December 2, 1940
(age 83)
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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