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Did Cro-Magnon invent writing?

Linnaeus · 2016-02-26 12:21:35

Most people in Europe believe that written scripts with the purpose of communication were first used in ancient Sumer and Egypt, ca. 4000 B.C. So, at least, we have been taught in school. Yet modern Romanians and Hungarians are increasingly accepting the theory of another, far older script: the so-called Old European or…

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Most people in Europe believe that written scripts with the purpose of communication were first used in ancient Sumer and Egypt, ca. 4000 B.C. So, at least, we have been taught in school. Yet modern Romanians and Hungarians are increasingly accepting the theory of another, far older script: the so-called Old European or Vinça syllabary, possibly an early type of writing which was widely utilized in the Danubian region starting about 6000 B.C., and which lasted for the entire Eneolithic Age. Is this Danube Script, however, absolutely the most ancient form of non-pictographic communication of which we have knowledge?

It seems not. There may have existed a genuine proto-script which was older still! In the Franco-Cantabrian region which extends from France into Spain, numerous abstract signs...too linear and stylized to represent either pictography or ideography...have been discovered in a Cro-Magnon settlement context. These beautifully incised signs have been dated to 40,000-10,000 B.C.

Please see the article entitled "Macro-Etymology: Paleosigns"

www.lionsgrip.com/etpaleosigns.html

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