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The Vinča symbols [a] are a set of undeciphered symbols found on artifacts from the Neolithic Vinča culture and other "Old European" cultures of Central and Southeast Europe. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] They have sometimes been described as an example of proto-writing . [ 5 ]
The Vinča culture [ʋîːnt͜ʃa], also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast Europe, dated to the period 5400–4500 BC.
The Vinča symbols have been known since the late 19th century excavation by Zsófia Torma (1832–1899) [18] at the Neolithic site of Turdaș (Hungarian: Tordos) in Transylvania, at the time part of Austria-Hungary, the type site of the Tordos culture, a late, regional variation of the Vinča culture.
Appearing on pottery and petrographs throughout the ancient world, the chevron can be considered to be one of the oldest symbols in human history, with V-shaped markings occurring as early as the Neolithic era (6th to 5th millennia BC) as part of the Vinča symbols inventory. The Vinča culture responsible for the symbols appear to have used ...
The difficulty in deciphering these systems can arise from a lack of known language descendants or from the languages being entirely isolated, from insufficient examples of text having been found and even (such as in the case of Vinča) from the question of whether the symbols actually constitute a writing system at all.
Vidovdanka is a Late Mesolithic anthropomorphic figurine made of terracotta regarded as symbol of the Vinča culture, which flourished in prehistoric Serbia in 5500 BC. It was excavated at 6.2 metres (20 ft) deep in Vinča, Serbia on the day of Vidovdan (hence the name) in 1930. It stands 30.7 centimetres (12.1 in) tall.
Old European script, Vinča symbols; Old European hydronymy (c. 2500 – c. 1500 BC), in Central and Western Europe "Old Europe", a term for pre-modern (i.e. pre-1800) European history coined by Austrian historian Otto Brunner "Old Europe" (politics), used by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe ...
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