Epigraphic
Society Occasional Publications
Table of Contents, Vol. 6/2, 1979
Paper No.
129
Etymology of The Minoan Language (5 pp) Linus Brunner 6/2-p 121
Brunner comments on Fell's decipherment of Minoan as
an Indo- European language closely related to Hittite. He gives a comparative
etymology of Minoan words derived by Fell's decipherments.
130
Minoan Decorative Motifs (2 pp) Gertrude
B. Johnson
6/2-p 126
These motifs were collected and drawn (graphics
shown) from various sources.
Kolumbus
nicht der Erste (1 p) Linus Brunner
6/2-p
128
A review of America
BC for the German publication, Ostschweiz, 2 Apr 1978.
131
Symbolic Field Patterns: Four American Examples (3 pp) Norman Totten
6/2-p
129
Totten discusses boundary markers, sun symbols and
field patterns.
12 Sites Suggested forWorld Heritage
List (1 p) UNESCO
6/2-p 132
A UNESCO announcement of the selection of twelve
cultural and natural sites in seven countries, setting them aside for
preservation.
Petroglyphs
Suggest Prehistoric Migrations (5 pp) Eleonora
Novgodorova
6/2-p 133
Soviet & Mongol archaeologists find new and
important evidence about the eastward movement of peoples.
Odyssey
of the Irish: Blood Group and Craniometric Analysis (19 pp) Albert E. Casey & Eleanor L. Downey-Price
6/2-p 138
Reprinted from the Alabama Journal of Medical
Sciences, Vol. 15, #1, 1978.
132
Madoc — A Persistent Legend (9 pp) Tristan
Jones
6/2-p 157
Examination of the case for early Welsh visits to the
Americas, specifically, that of Madoc. Short Biographic material on the author
is available.
Letter from Dr Mohamed Jarary (1 p)
6/2-p
166
Announcement of the establishment of a Research
Centre in Tripoli, Libya, under the auspices of El Fatah University. Asks for
assistance in provision of materials for the Centre.
133
Elements of Maya Arithmetic with Particular Attention to the Calendar (14
pp) Charles C. Fulton
6/2-p 167
Originally published as #85 of Notes on Middle
American Archaeology and Ethnology, 14 Nov. 1947.
134
Cockaponsett Carvings (8 pp)
Frederick J. Pohl
6/2-p 181
Discusses carvings and cupule patterns found in the
Cockaponsett area of Connecticut.
135
Center for the Ancients (3 pp)
Gloria Farley
6/2-p 189
Discusses sites in Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma,
all within a 50 mile radius. A boat graphic is shown.
136
The Cresson Shell (3 pp) Elizabeth
Lockwood Coombs
6/2-p 192
An incised shell, bored for wearing, found in 1891,
shows a picture of a mammoth (graphic shown).
137
Inscriptions and Other Features at Cockaponsett (5 pp) John
Gallagher
6/2-p 195
Further discussion of carvings and cupules at
Cockaponsett, Connecticut.
138
Two Southwestern Petroglyph Sites (9 pp) Don
Rickey
6/2-p 200
One is at Hackberry Springs, Colorado, and the other
at Waterflow, New Mexico (the latter was deciphered by Fell).
Report
on A Rupestral Inscription from Waterflow, New Mexico (2 pp) Barry
Fell 6/2-p 209
Fell gives his decipherment of the petroglyphic
inscription mentioned in the previous paper. He reads the script as Libyan
Tifinag and the language as a Moroccan dialect of Iberic.
On
the Cover
A graceful tapered Minoan ceramic vessel, used for serving liquids at
table. Having no base, such a vessel had to be held during the meal by a serving
man. Related forms, some termed amphorettas, are being discovered on the seabed,
and also depicted in petroglyphs, in North America.
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