# Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in…

> Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in every pottery-using culture.

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Evidence · Vinča signs

# Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in…

Most signs sit alone on vessel bases or bodies in domestic contexts, where potters' and owners' marks are found in every pottery-using culture.

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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

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The signs are marks and ornament, not a system](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/answers/ANS0DEDY4RKS918/the-signs-are-marks-and-ornament-not-a-system)

Supports1 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## Sources 4

[Corpora of Non-Linguistic Symbol Systems](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDNEMDSTTH/corpora-of-non-linguistic-symbol-systems)

Wu et al. 2012

SRC

[If the Vinča Script Once Really Existed Who Could Have Written or Read It?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDM6KDA4ZV/if-the-vinca-script-once-really-existed-who-could-have)

Starović 2005

SRC

[Ist die Donauschrift Schrift? Eine systematische Untersuchung der Zeichensequenzen aus der Vinča-Kultur (5200-3400 v. Chr.)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMNMGY359/ist-die-donauschrift-schrift-eine-systematische-untersuchung)

Mäder 2019

SRC

[The Vinča Culture of South-East Europe: Studies in Chronology, Economy and Society](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDN1DYWG0V/the-vinca-culture-of-south-east-europe-studies-in-chronology)

Chapman 1981

SRC

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