L.B. Van der Meer
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L.B. (Bouke) Van der Meer is a professor of archaeology at the University of Leiden.
He is a leading authority on the Etruscan language and co-author, with Robert S. P. Beekes of De Etrusken Spreken Muiderberg: Coutinho, 1991, and an advocate of the oriental origin theory for the Etruscans:
http://www.babesch.org/79vandermeer.html
He is the author of numerous other books and papers and is currently working on a book on the Liber Linteus.