Vinča symbols

The Vinča symbols, sometimes called the Vinča signs, Vinča script, Vinča-Turdaş script, Old European script, etc, are a set of symbols found on Neolithic era (6th to 5th millennia BCE) artifacts from the Vinča culture of southeastern Europe.
The symbols are mostly considered as constituting an instance of "proto-writing"; that is, they probably conveyed a message but did not encode language, predating the development of writing proper by more than a millennium.
More information on the Wikipedia page and the Omniglot page . There is various other coverage on the Web.
Category:Proto-writing
Category:ancient World