Talk:Vinča symbols

message: This is to draw attention to the fact that the last image in this article has been flagged (by me) for review, as it appears to contain unicode error blocks, and is sourced to an external site that gives Wikimedia Commons as the original source. The image is thus misleading and needs to be corrected by someone with actual knowledge of the subject. -  Metalello talk 03:18, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faulty image 

message: Why there is no any image of these Vinca symbols ? However, there are so much images on Internet that you can get for FREE... Strange! Misinformation? What's going on?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.226.248.129 (talk) 07:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Get an account and do it yourself. Lack of symbols can't be misinformation, that doesn't make sense. Doug Weller (talk) 09:47, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: BUT, WHERE ARE THE SYMBOLS ?

message: The article reads:
This is very strong phrasing. Is it even true? It's plausible that some people think this but that it's prevailing? Seems doubtful to me. The entire section is unsourced, so there's no source to check regarding how widespread this view is. -- Scyrme (talk) 22:27, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: * It helps a bit. If there's no consensus then the lack of any evidence for these ideas being "prevailing" is probably because it doesn't exist as opposed to me being bad at finding it. I've reworded it to soften the phrasing for now, but I may prune the section further if I'm not able to find anything substantiating these theories. – Scyrme (talk) 23:23, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Prevailing theory" 

message: Is it possible that the symbols represent Proto-Indo-European? I am a Green Bee (talk) 12:42, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Even if they are writing, which has not been definitively proven, the Vinča culture of Neolithic Europe was not Proto-European. – Scyrme (talk) 15:55, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  PIE 

message: Does anyone have access to Winn's Pre-writing in Southeastern Europe (1981)? Milisauskas and Kruk mention that Winn considered the Vinča inscriptions as symbols of property ownership, citing the 1981 work. Starović (2005) also refers to Winn (1981). It may provide a relevant reference for . – Scyrme (talk) 21:29, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Winn (1981) might also be helpful for . A 2008 paper by Haarmann quotes Winn in this context. – Scyrme (talk) 22:14, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winn (1981) on property marks? 

message: I've not been able to find anything anywhere about "comb" or "brush" signs being used as numerical symbols, so I'm unsure where that information is from. A Google Books search shows that Haarmann (2020) appears to cover the topic of numerical signs, but he doesn't appear to make any mention of "comb" or "brush" signs. A 2008 paper by Haarmann notes that the identification of grouping of strokes as numerical signs is "pervasive", but he himself seems to doubt that; he notes that other cultures (namely Sumer and Elam) used dots not strokes for this purpose, so identifying groups of strokes is numerical signs is "highly arbitrary".
Does anyone have access to Haarmann's The Mystery of the Danube Civilisation (2020)? What does he write on the topic? Is it much different to what's in the 2008 paper?
I'm also unsure where "" comes from. My best guess is Winn (1981) based on what Starović writes, but I don't have access to check. – Scyrme (talk) 22:10, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haarmann (2020) on numerical signs? 

message: More appropriate titles for this article are Danube script or Old European script as they are widely used by researchers and represent better this script. Vinča is only one archeological site where examples of the script were found.
http://www.prehistory.it/ftp/winn.htm
https://www.archaeomythology.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2008-vol4-intro1.pdf MiltenR (talk) 21:44, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change title