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Unit 4 Lab
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Click here to watch a 12 -minute TEDTalk titled “A Rosetta Stone for a Lost Language.”
Then, answer the questions below.
What are the challenges of trying to study a culture with a lost language?
*It would be difficult for the person to study the culture when they don’t understand the language of that culture*
What are the three hypotheses about the Indus script?
Why haven’t scholars been able to decode the Indus Script?
*Because there is no Rosetta stone that contains the same text both a known text and an unknown text.*
What is one way of trying to determine the direction of writing?
*Left hand side of the text and determine if there's a cramping of signs.*
How are computers being used to help decipher the Indus Script?
What indications are there that the Indus Script is a language?
What is the Rebus principle?
*Using pictures to represent words.*
Why is deciphering the Indus Script important?