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How many distinct Vinča signs are there, and how stable is the inventory across sites and phases?

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Winn listed 210 signs and reduced them to about 30 core shapes with variants; Haarmann counts 700 to 1,000 components; Merlini's DatDas holds 5,421 sign occurrences but is not published as data⁠[1]⁠[2]⁠[3]. Mäder found that Winn's list rotated and merged marks arbitrarily, so the inventory itself is in dispute⁠[4]. In the open corpus 72 of 185 sign types occur once, which is what a mark system, not a script, looks like⁠[5].

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