# Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean…

> Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean scripts, and the comparison spans…

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# Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean…

Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean scripts, and the comparison spans about two thousand years with no intermediate corpus.

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## What it means

Key question[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)

6 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[The signs are ancestral to the Aegean scripts](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/answers/ANS0DEDY6TDM8K0/the-signs-are-ancestral-to-the-aegean-scripts)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 3

[Balkan Neolithic Scripts](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNE996X68/balkan-neolithic-scripts)

Owens 1999

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[Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMJX0ATR4/early-civilization-and-literacy-in-europe-an-inquiry-into)

Haarmann 1995

SRC

[The End of the Affair: Formal Chronological Modelling for the Top of the Neolithic Tell of Vinča-Belo Brdo](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDN1MBHXBR/the-end-of-the-affair-formal-chronological-modelling-for-the)

Tasić et al. 2015

SRC

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