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The following books, articles, and websites have been used as research material for Ancient Scripts.

Antonsen, Elmer H.
1989 "The Runes: the Earliest Germanic Writing System", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Bellamy, James A
1989 "The Arabic Alphabet", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Buck, Carl D
1949 A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages, paperback ed, The University of Chicago Press
Byrne, Roger, et al
1999 Nombres Geográficos de México, http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProjectsResources/Glyphs/Homepage/Project.html
Cabrera Castro, Rubén
1996 "Caracteres glíficos Teotihuacanos en un piso de la Ventilla", La Pintura Mural Prehispánica en México, Teotihuacán, vol 1, tomo 2, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Campbell, Lyle
1998 Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, 1st ed, The MIT Press
Chadwick, John
1990 "Linear B and Related Scripts", Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet, 1st ed, University of California Press
Coe, Michael D.
1992 Breaking the Maya Code, 1st ed, Thames and Hudson Inc
1993 The Maya, 5th ed, Thames and Hudson Inc
1994 Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs, 4th ed, Thames and Hudson Inc
Cook, B. F.
1990 "Greek Inscriptions", Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet, 1st ed, University of California Press
Coulmas, Florian
1989 The Writing Systems of the World, 1st ed, Blackwell Publisher
1996 The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems, 1st ed, Blackwell Publisher
Cross, Frank Moore
1989 "The Invention and Development of the Alphabet", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Davies, W. V.
1990 "Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet, 1st ed, University of California Press
Fairservis, Walter A., Jr.
1983 "The Script of the Indus Valley Civilization", Scientific American, March 1983, 41-49
Fischer, Henry George
1989 "The Origin of Egyptian Hieroglyphs", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Fox, Anthony
1995 Linguistic Reconstruction, Oxford University Press
Green, M. W.
1989 "Early Cuneiform", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Healey, John F.
1990 "Early Alphabet", Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet, 1st ed, University of California Press
Hock, Hans H., and Joseph, Brian D.
1996 Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter
Holisky, Dee Ann
1994 "The Georgian Alphabet", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
Justeson, John S.
1986 "The Origin of Writing Systems: Preclassic Mesoamerica", World Archaeology, vol 17, no 13, Feb 1986, 439-456
Justeson, John S., and Kaufman, Terence
1986 "A Decipherment of Epi-Olmec Hieroglyphic Writing", Science, vol 259, 19 March 1993, 1703-1711
1993 "A Newly Discovered Column in the Hieroglyphic Text on La Mojarra Stela 1: A Test of the Epi-Olmec Decipherment", Science, vol 277, 11 July 1997, http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/justeson.shl
Kara, György
1994a "Kitan and Jurchin", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
1994b "Aramaic Scripts for Iranian Languages", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
Kaufman, Terence, and Justeson, John S.
1986 "Epi-Olmec Texts", Workbook from the Maya Meetings at Texas, 2001, http://www.albany.edu/anthro/maldp/EOTEXTS.pdf
Keightley, David N.
1989 "The Origins of Writing in China: Scripts and Cultural Contexts", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Lehman, Ruth P.M.
1989 "Ogham: The Ancient Script of the Celts", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Lounsbury, Floyd G.
1989 "The Ancient Writing of Middle America", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Mallory, J. P.
1989 In Search of Indo-Europeans, 1st ed, Thames and Hudson
Marcus, Joyce
1980 "Zapotec Writing", Scientific American, February 1980
1992 Mesoamerican Writing Systems: Propaganda, Myth, and History in Four Ancient Civilizations, 1st ed, Princeton University Press
O'Connor, M.
1994 "The Berber Scripts", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
Parpola, Asko
1986 "The Indus Script: a Challenging Puzzle", World Archaeology, vol 17, no 3, Feb 1986, pg 399-419
Pohl, Mary E. D., Pope, Kevin O., and von Nagy, Christopher
2002 "Olmec Origins of Mesoamerican Writing", Science, vol 298, 6 Feb 2002, pg 1984-1986
Ramsey, S. Robert
1987 The Languages of China, Princeton University Press
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise
1989 "Two Precursors of Writing: Plain and Complex Tokens", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Shi, Dingxu
1994 "The Yi Scripts", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
Sharer, Robert J.
1994 The Ancient Maya, 5th ed, Stanford University Press
Smith, Mary Elizabeth
1973 Picture Writing from Ancient Southern Mexico: Mixtec Place Signs and Maps, 1st ed, University of Oklahoma Press
Stroud, Ronald S.
1989 "The Arabic Alphabet", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska
Swiggers, Pierre
1994 "The Iberian Scripts", The World's Writing Systems, 1st ed, Oxford University Press
Taube, Karl
2000 "The Writing System of Ancient Teotihuacan", Ancient America, vol 1, Center for Maya Research
Urcid Serrano, Javier
2001 Zapotec Hieroglyphic Writing, 1st ed, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
2004 "Sacred Landscapes and Social Memory: The Ņuiņe Inscriptions in the Ndaxagua Natural Tunnel, Tepelmeme, Oaxaca", Report submitted to Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc., http://www.famsi.org/reports/03068/.
Vallat, Francois
1994 "The Most Ancient Scripts of Iran: The Current Situation", World Archaeology, vol 17, no 3, Feb 1986, pg 335-347
Walker, C. B. F.
1990 "Cuneiform", Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet, 1st ed, University of California Press
Wallace, Rex
1989 "The Origins and Development of the Latin Alphabet", Origins of Writing, 1st ed, University of Nebraska