What is Vinča script?
[[File:Tărtăria Amulet Tablet.png|thumb]] The '''Vinča script''' is a cache of symbols found belonging to the [[Vinča culture]] of the central Balkans over 7000 years ago. The symbols have been a topic of debate amongst historians. The Tărtăria tablets are three [[Clay tablet|tablets]] discovered in 1961 in the village of Tărtăria([[Hungarian language|Hungarian]]: Alsótatárlaka). This is about 30 km (19 mi) from [[Alba Iulia]] in [[Romania]].<sup>[[Writing#cite note-10|[10]]]</sup>The tablets, dated to around 5300 BC,<sup>[[Writing#cite note-11|[11]]]</sup> have symbols inclay: the Vinča symbols. Some claim they are a yet undeciphered language. If this is so, they would be the earliest known form of writing. In 1908 similar symbols were found during excavations, by Miloje Vasić (1869–1956) in Vinča. This is a suburb of [[Belgrade]] ([[Serbia]]), some 300 km from Turdaș. Later, more were found in another part of Belgrade. Since 1875 over one hundred and fifty Vinča sites have been found in Serbia alone. Many, including Vinča itself, have not been fully excavated. The culture of the whole area is called the Vinča culture. Although some of these symbols look exactly the same as some letters in Etruscan, Greek, and Aramaic,<sup>[[Writing#cite note-12|[12]]]</sup> they are generally regarded as a an original, independent development.<sup>[[Writing#cite note-13|[13]]]</sup> [[Category:Stone Age]]