# Harald Haarmann 1995: Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World

> Harald Haarmann, 1995. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Haarmann's fullest statement that the Vinča signs are an "Old European script", the…

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# Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World

Harald Haarmann, 1995.

**Vinča signs** Book0

## What it's used for here

Haarmann's fullest statement that the Vinča signs are an "Old European script", the earliest writing, and that about half of Linear A's signs derive from it. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter (Approaches to Semiotics 124), ISBN 3-11-014651-7; imprint date 1996 on some copies. The Linear A derivation rests on shape comparison across two millennia and has no following among Aegean epigraphers.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[Haarmann reports that about half of Linear A's roughly 120 signs have close shape parallels in the Old European…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEEAW1FZACE/haarmann-reports-that-about-half-of-linear-as-roughly-120)

Evidence

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[Owens, reviewing the Balkan Neolithic material as an Aegean epigrapher, found no demonstrable connection to the Aegean…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEE9HD5HE4K/owens-reviewing-the-balkan-neolithic-material-as-an-aegean)

Evidence

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

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Harald Haarmann (1995). Early Civilization and Literacy in Europe: An Inquiry into Cultural Continuity in the Mediterranean World. https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Haarmann+Early+Civilization+and+Literacy+in+Europe
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