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Comparative account of the independent inventions of writing (Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Mesoamerica) and the distinction between writing, which records language so that an utterance can be recovered, and sign systems that convey meaning without language. In S. D. Houston (ed.), The First Writing: Script Invention as History and Process, Cambridge University Press, pp. 39-68, ISBN 0-521-83861-4. Supplies the criteria applied to the Vinča signs on this site.
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Bruce G. Trigger (2004). Writing Systems: A Case Study in Cultural Evolution. https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=Houston+The+First+Writing+Script+Invention+as+History+and+Process
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. “Writing Systems: A Case Study in Cultural Evolution.” 2004.