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  ArchaeometryVolume 50 Issue 1, Pages 158 - 176 Published Online: 25 Oct 2007 © 2010 University of Oxford Published on behalf of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford
Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 546K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  METHODS OF USING PHYLOGENETIC SYSTEMATICS TO RECONSTRUCT THE HISTORY OF THE LINEAR B SCRIPT* Copyright © University of Oxford, 2007 KEYWORDS PHYLOGENETICS • CLADISTICS • LINEAR B • LINEAR A • MYCENAEAN • GREECE • BRONZE AGE • PALAEOGRAPHY • WRITING ABSTRACTPhylogenetic systematics, developed in biology for reconstructing evolutionary histories of organisms, has been successfully applied to languages and manuscripts. This paper pioneers its use for writing systems, with Linear B, a pre-alphabetic Greek script, the test subject. Taxa represent scribal hands. Phylogenetic characters represent different forms of the same Linear B sign. The tree produced by running the data matrix using parsimony as the optimality criterion is consistent with and clarifies what is known or hypothesized about the history of Linear B. This demonstrates the effectiveness of using phylogenetic analysis to reconstruct the history of writing systems. Received: 28 July 2006; Accepted: 22 September 2006; | 
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