Quote:Archaeologists in LoveShe was British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler's favorite statuette, as you can tell in this quote from a 1973 television program:
There is her little Baluchi-style face with pouting lips and insolent look in the eye. She's about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There's nothing like her, I think, in the world.
John Marshall, one of the excavators at Mohenjo-Daro, described her as a vivid impression of the young... girl, her hand on her hip in a half-impudent posture, and legs slightly forward as she beats time to the music with her legs and feet...
The artistry of this lovely statuette crosses time and space and speaks to us of a seemingly unknowable, but at least fleetingly recognizable past. As author Gregory Possehl says, We may not be certain that she was a dancer, but she was good at what she did and she knew it.

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The Indus Valley writing was in Tamil a Dravidian language. The Dravidians originated in Africa, and were associated with the C-Group culture of Nubia. The Dravidians were Proto Saharan People. The ProtoSaharans were the ancestors of the Dravidian, Elamite and Sumerian people. The Dravidians had their own tradition of writing. It would appear that they introduced writing to the Indus Valley and later punch-marked coins. This is supported by the discovery of writing in South India dating back to before 600 B.C.
This paper focuses on the Ancient Dravidian costumes, arts, crafts, language and culture. Srinivasan et al, argue that the Indus Valley writing was a syllabic multilingual writing system. Although this is their opinion, it appears that the writing system used in the Indus Valley was also employed in South India and that the language of the Indus Valley script was Tamil.

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