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The Danube Script and Other Ancient Writing Systems: A Typology of Distinctive Features
Harald Haarmann, 2008.
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Sets out the "Danube script" case and its criteria: negative identification (not decoration, not potters' marks), asymmetric placement, conventions shared across sites, an inventory of basic shapes with diacritic variants (700 to 1,000 components), and the claim that a script need not be deciphered to be recognised. Journal of Archaeomythology 4(1): 12-46. Open PDF.
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Harald Haarmann (2008). The Danube Script and Other Ancient Writing Systems: A Typology of Distinctive Features. https://www.archaeomythology.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2008-vol4-a1-haarmann.pdf
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