# Continuity is plausible but untestable on present evidence

> Still possible: The link cannot be shown: a gap of about a thousand years and undeciphered Bronze Age scripts leave continuity untestable, and the Iron…

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# Continuity is plausible but untestable on present evidence

The link cannot be shown: a gap of about a thousand years and undeciphered Bronze Age scripts leave continuity untestable, and the Iron Age languages could be later arrivals.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Comparisons of Eteocypriot with Cypro-Minoan sequences will not exceed chance under a shuffled-sign null.

## What would rule it out

- A reproducible match of distinctive Iron Age forms in Bronze Age texts, above a null model.

## Evidence 1 for · none against

[About a thousand years separate each Iron Age corpus from its Bronze Age predecessor, and neither Linear A nor…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/evidence/EVD0DEEDHKKK9KP/about-a-thousand-years-separate-each-iron-age-corpus-from)

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## The questions it answers

[Do Eteocretan and Eteocypriot continue the Bronze Age languages written in Linear A and Cypro-Minoan?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/eteocretan-eteocypriot/questions/QST0DEDZ8ZPM19P/do-eteocretan-and-eteocypriot-continue-the-bronze-age)

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