Center for South Asia Weekly Lecture Series: J. Mark Kenoyer (Professor, Anthropology, UW-Madison)

This talk will cover the most recent discoveries relating to the Indus script, which was developed in the Indus Civilization of what is now Pakistan and Western India. This script is still undeciphered, but new approaches to the study of the contexts and ways in which the writing is used have provided important new insights into the potential meaning of some signs and also how the script functioned in the cities of the Indus River Valley and adjacent regions.