# The signs are ancestral to the Aegean scripts

> Still possible: The Vinča signs are the ancestor of Linear A and the other Aegean scripts, which inherited about half their sign shapes from the Danube…

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Answer · Vinča signs

# The signs are ancestral to the Aegean scripts

The Vinča signs are the ancestor of Linear A and the other Aegean scripts, which inherited about half their sign shapes from the Danube script.

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

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Sign-shape matches between the Vinča inventory and Linear A exceed those between Vinča and an unrelated script of similar size (for example Old Elamite or Proto-Sinaitic) under the same matching rules.
- Intermediate sign-bearing material of the fourth and early third millennia BC exists in the north Aegean linking the two.

## What would rule it out

- Matching Vinča shapes against unrelated scripts under the same rules gives the same hit rate as against Linear A.
- No intermediate corpus is found and the Aegean scripts are shown to arise from Cretan hieroglyphic within Crete.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Haarmann reports that about half of Linear A's roughly 120 signs have close shape parallels in the Old European…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEEAW1FZACE/haarmann-reports-that-about-half-of-linear-as-roughly-120)

Speculative

FOR

[Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9HD5HE4K/owens-reviewing-the-balkan-neolithic-material-as-an-aegean)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW2Y5RPT1/do-the-vinca-signs-record-language-a-conventional-notation)

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