Walter Ashlin Fairservis

1921 – 1994

• Hierakonpolis, the graffiti and the origins of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
• Problems in the origins of the civilizations of India and China
• South Asian archaeology studies
• The comparative stratigraphy of the Indo-Iranian borderlands
• The graffiti
• The Hierakonpolis Project season January to March 1978
• The Hierakonpolis Project season January to May 1981
• The origin, character, and decline of an early civilization