# Marco Merlini · Person

> Italian researcher (Prehistory Knowledge Project, Institute of Archaeomythology) who built the DatDas databank of Danube script signs and re-investigated…

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# Marco Merlini

Italian researcher (Prehistory Knowledge Project, Institute of Archaeomythology) who built the DatDas databank of Danube script signs and re-investigated Tărtăria with Lazarovici

[The Vinča signs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)[2 events][1 source]

Marco Merlini is italian independent researcher on the Danube script; builder of the DatDas databank, and appears in the record of Vinča signs as italian researcher (Prehistory Knowledge Project, Institute of Archaeomythology) who built the DatDas databank of Danube script signs and re-investigated Tărtăria with Lazarovici.

Two events on the site involve Merlini, from The Signs of Civilization symposium at Novi Sad gives the Danube script thesis an academic platform (May 2004) to Lazarovici and Merlini publish radiocarbon dates for the Tărtăria bones; Starović surveys over 1,000 inscribed objects (Dec 2005).

Four questions rest in part on what Merlini did or said, among them “Do the Vinča signs record language, a conventional notation, or neither?”, which stands open: 6 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**The Vinča signs**

2 events

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs)

[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)Open: 6 answers, none ahead

[When were the Tărtăria tablets made, and are they genuine Neolithic objects from the pit Vlassa described?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW337CVM0/when-were-the-tartaria-tablets-made-and-are-they-genuine)Open: 4 answers, none ahead

[Do the Dispilio tablet, the Gradešnica plaque and the Karanovo seal belong to the same sign tradition as the Vinča pottery marks?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW3GWGE7R/do-the-dispilio-tablet-the-gradesnica-plaque-and-the)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

[How many distinct Vinča signs are there, and how stable is the inventory across sites and phases?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW37PF87Q/how-many-distinct-vinca-signs-are-there-and-how-stable-is)No evidence yet: No evidence yet

## What Marco Merlini did 2

May 2004[The Signs of Civilization symposium at Novi Sad gives the Danube script thesis an academic platform](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/events/EVT0DEDT2FSSKMF/the-signs-of-civilization-symposium-at-novi-sad-gives-the)

with [Harald Haarmann](https://mysteriesdept.com/records/FIG0DEDQ6S2QXVJ/harald-haarmann)

Dec 2005[Lazarovici and Merlini publish radiocarbon dates for the Tărtăria bones; Starović surveys over 1,000 inscribed objects](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/events/EVT0DEDT2Z2S6K0/lazarovici-and-merlini-publish-radiocarbon-dates-for-the)

## Worked with 1

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**Harald Haarmann**

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## Sources 1

[Neo-Eneolithic Literacy in Southeastern Europe: An Inquiry into the Danube Script](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDMME8S2NA/neo-eneolithic-literacy-in-southeastern-europe-an-inquiry)

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Compiled DatDas (5,421 signs, 1,178 inscriptions, 971 artifacts); co-author of the 2005-2016 Tărtăria re-investigations

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Italian independent researcher on the Danube script; builder of the DatDas databank

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