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Indo-Sumerian. A new approach to the problems of the indus script. By J. V. Kinnier Wilson. pp. [vii], 55, 1 pl. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974. £1.50

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Indo-Sumerian. A new approach to the problems of the indus script. By J. V. Kinnier Wilson. pp. [vii], 55, 1 pl. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1974. £1.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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1 Outlined in a number of unpublished and published papers by McAlpin, David W.: “Towards proto-Elamo-Dravidian”, circulated in Dravlingpex, 5, No. 5, 03, 1973Google Scholar; “Elamite and Dravidian: Their verbal morphologies” (working paper of April, 1973); “Toward proto-Elamo-Dravidian”, Language, 1974, 89–101; “Elamite and Dravidian: Further evidence of relationship” (intended for publication in Current Anthropologist; known to me only from its pre-print copy).

2 In particular, “Interpreting the Indus script” (for the SirWheeler, Mortimer Felicitation Volume, Fifty years of Harappan studies, ed. Lal, B. B. and Gupta, S. P.), pre-print copy of 03 1974Google Scholar; and especially a very thought-provoking, detailed, and rich paper entitled “Recent developments in the study of the Indus script” read at the International Seminar on Sind through the Centuries, Karachi, March 1975. I herewith express my thanks to the author for letting me have the pre-print copies of his papers.