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Beyond Mesopotamia
Tom Stevenson, 2025. London Review of Books 47(4), 6 March 2025.
Long essay on the Linear Elamite decipherment with interviews: Desset on the silver kunanki as the key (Shilhaha first, 72 of 77 hypothesised signs, 96 per cent of occurrences) and on continuity with Proto-Elamite; Dahl calling the Proto-Elamite links superficial and the paper "so full of errors"; the ethics objection to using objects from irregular excavations.
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Journalism, used for the recorded positions of Desset and Dahl in 2025 and the provenance objection.
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Stevenson, T. (2025). Beyond Mesopotamia. London Review of Books 47(4), 6 March 2025. https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n04/tom-stevenson/beyond-mesopotamia
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Stevenson, Tom. “Beyond Mesopotamia.” London Review of Books 47(4), 6 March 2025 (2025).