Glyph-Breaker (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)

After successfully deciphering the Rongorongo script of Easter Island, Steven Roger Fischer gained a unique place in the pantheon of glyphbreakers: he is the only person to have deciphered not one but two ancient scripts. Both of these scripts yield clues of great historical importance. Fischers previous decipherment, of a Cretan artefact called the Phaistos Disk, provided the key to the ancient Minoan language and showed it to be closely related to Mycenaean Greek. Fischer's decipherment of Rongorongo shows that it was not merely a mnemonic device for recalling memorised texts, but was actually read and used for creative composition. This is the exciting story of these two decipherments, by the man who now must rank as the greatest glyphbreaker of all time.

General

Imprint:	Copernicus Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1997
Authors:	Steven R. Fischer
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-7490-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4612-7490-7
Barcode:	9781461274902

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