Joy Bose

Sequential Structure Without a Linguistic Diagnosis: A Falsification-Oriented Analysis of the Indus Script

The Indus Valley script remains undeciphered. Under ordinary cross-validated scoring, real Indus sign sequences show a positive trigram-over-bigram predictive gain (the two preceding signs predict the next sign better than one preceding sign alone), replicating closely across two...

Sequential Structure Without a Linguistic Diagnosis: A Falsification-Oriented Analysis of the Indus Script

The Indus Valley script remains undeciphered. Under ordinary cross-validated scoring, real Indus sign sequences show a positive trigram-over-bigram predictive gain (the two preceding signs predict the next sign better than one preceding sign alone), replicating closely across two...