Re: [tied] Balkan Script

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...>" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > Could list members direct me to any published source on the

script

> > > dated to 6th millennium BCE and found in the Balkans?
> >
> > Such a find would be remarkable indeed! 3000 years earlier than

the

> earliest
> > known writing anywhere. What did you actually mean?
> >
> > Peter
>
> I have an unreliable recollection of Gimbutas giving credence to
> an 'Old European Script'. Another possibility is some of the
> markings on the Bronocice pot (discussed around
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/9280 ), which is

dated

> to the 6th millenium _BP_. I expect some crank will have a
> translation on the Internet.

I should have searched first. I didn't find any translations. At
least one site seemed to soberly believe 6th millenium BC, so I'm now
sure the question refers to the 'Old European Script', which Gimbutas
has discussed.

Richard.