Jan-Tage Kristiansen
Jan-Tage Kristiansen is a researcher whose 2023 correspondence note in the journal language established the foundational coding system now used throughout the scholarly literature on the Scapula Glyph Inscription and related texts.
Work
Kristiansen's brief report, "Twin renderings, single template: a ruled signary on a putative cervid scapula" (language 27, October 2023: 1073–1074), introduced a systematic alphanumeric labelling scheme for the graphemes of KS-01, grouping them into visually coherent families (A, B, C, H, L, M, P, S, T) and documenting their positional distribution across four ruled lines. The paper noted that circulating images likely trace to a single original drawing, and advocated higher-quality imaging before firm conclusions about medium, date, or technique.
The coding system Kristiansen proposed—in which each sign receives a class letter and index number, e.g. C01, B04, P01—was subsequently adopted without modification by Ginevra Rubergskier, Camille Voudrin, and Inrik Üksküla in their analyses of related material.