Steven Bonta is a Phd in Linguistics from Cornell where he did extensive work in South Asian languages. A two-time Fulbright Scholar, and has done fieldwork in Tamil and Telugu dialectology in Sri Lanka. He has worked on the Indus Valley script for more than three decades, including an MA thesis in the mid-1990s.

Decipherment paper: https://www.academia.edu/105163460/A_...

Read Bonta's other papers here: https://independent.academia.edu/Stev...

00:00 Intro
01:00 Decipherment is an art
07:00 Indus sites and seals
15:00 Types of writing
18:03 What works and doesn't
25:31 Ascertain the writing system
26:54 Fields
33:55 M-fields
38:51 O-subfield
41:00 Staff sign
42:47 The U sign
44:16 Patterned and complex
48:07 P,C,T-fields
53:09 Sanskrit Noun compounding
1:01:34 Metrology
1:09:56 pala
1:11:49 The first signs
1:19:30 The 5 initial values
1:22:55 The signary
1:34:51 Reading complex inscriptions
1:39:46 The T-fields
1:49:04 Meanings of readings
1:55:55 Conclusions
2:05:40 Discussion and Questions