Vinča culture
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The Vinča culture, 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. It is named
Vinča ceramics
Copper axe from Pločnik, Serbia, c. 5000 BC
One of the Tărtăria tablets with Vinča symbols, dated to 5500–5300 BC
Vinča figurine, the Goddess on the Throne
Vinča symbols
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The Vinča symbols are a set of undeciphered symbols found on artifacts from the Neolithic Vinča culture and other "Old European" cultures of Central and Southeast Europe. They have sometimes been desc
Vinča culture
…items, but were probably not politically unified. Various styles of zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figurines were hallmarks of the culture, as are the Vinča symbols, which some conjecture to be the earliest form of proto-writing. Although the Vinča culture has not been conventionally considered to be part of the…
Fragment of a clay vessel with an M-shaped incision
Potsherd bearing an inscribed mark belonging to the corpus of Vinča symbols
One of the Gradeshnitsa tablets