# Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and…

> Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and totals; the Vinča material has no…

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# Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and…

Proto-cuneiform, the one well-studied proto-writing, is an administrative system of numerals, commodity signs and totals; the Vinča material has no numeral system beyond strokes and no totals.

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## What it means

Key question[Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW2Y5RPT1/do-the-vinca-signs-record-language-a-conventional-notation)

6 answers, none ahead yet

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Answer this evidence bears on[The signs are proto-writing, a notation without language](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/answers/ANS0DEDY3VM7CCE/the-signs-are-proto-writing-a-notation-without-language)

Counts against1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 2

[Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNFYFN002/archaic-bookkeeping-early-writing-and-techniques-of-economic)

Nissen et al. 1993

SRC

[The Origins of Writing as a Problem of Historical Epistemology](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHS8P4A8J/the-origins-of-writing-as-a-problem-of-historical)

Damerow 2006

SRC

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