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Fischers decipherments yielded important discoveries: that the Minoans, contrary to settled opinion, were closely related to the Greeks; and that Rongorongo script was a living script, used not only for rituals but for composition, and
thus the only active system of writing in Oceania before the twentieth century * An absorbing, accessible account of how an ancient code is broken
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Glyph-Breaker
Authors: Steven Roger Fischer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2298-9
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Steven Roger Fischer 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7490-2Published: 17 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-2298-9Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 234
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology