These interpretations suggest the simple equation that ‗material culture = people = language‘ ... Processual and post-processual developments in archaeological theory have surely enabled us to abandon such crude equations and to acknowledge that the dynamics of material culture, ethnicity and language are far more complex.
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Robin Coningham, ‗Deciphering the Indus Script‘, p. 91. Coningham, R.A.E. ‗Deciphering the Indus Script‘, in S. Settar & Ravi Korisettar, eds, Indian Archaeology in Retrospect, Vol. II, Protohistory: Archaeology of the Harappan Civilization, New Delhi, 2000.