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	Virtual Museum of the Inscriptions
		The Tartaria tablets and the Lepenski Vir spherical stone not only are appropriate objects for inscriptions, but they bear signs frequently found in scripts.
		Clay spindle whorls were the medium for recording strings of signs; objects having signs with an unclear or disordered arrangement, such as the jumbled signs on miniature vessels, probably have ritualistic uses.
		Some ritual objects, however, have orderly abstract signs, such as the Tartaria tablets, which were placed in a grave (Winn 1990:274-76).
	www.prehistory.it /ftp/winn6.htm (234 words)

	Tartaria Tablets Encyclopedia Information @ AlienArtifacts.com (Alien Artifacts) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The tablets are generally believed to have belonged to the Vinča culture, which at the time was believed by Serbian and Romanian archaeologists to have originated around 2700 BC.
		Vlassa interpreted the Tărtăria tablets as a hunting scene and the other two with signs as a kind of primitive writing similar to the early pictograms of the Sumerians.
		Hungarian runes and the Tartaria Tablets (Note: Tartaria is referred to as Tatárlaka).
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Tartaria_tablets (1287 words)

	Escritura de Tartaria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		En Tartaria, en la Transilvania rumana, se encontraron tres tablillas de arcilla cocida en las que había representados pictogramas; en la misma excavación se descubrieron un brazalete de spondylus, un ancla de arcilla y 27 figuras antropomorfas de las que 25 eran de arcilla y 2 de alabastro.
		Pero los defensores de atribuirles un origen posterior se basan en que el yacimiento de Tartaria no necesariamente se corresponde al periodo de Vinca, sino a una reocupación posterior por las culturas de Petresti y de Cotofeni, del calcolítico medio balcánico, es decir, en la primea mitad del III milenio a.
		Lo que parece estar fuera de duda es que los signos representados en estas tablillas no tienen conexión con los sumerios, contrariamente a lo que durante un tiempo se pensó, y sí con los símbolos egeos de la civilización cretense.
	www.proel.org /alfabetos/tartaria.htm (253 words)

	Getica - Dacians
		Having been dated to around 4800 - 4500 BC, these tablets are about 2000 years older than the sumerian writings, which have long been considered the oldest writings in the world.
		Neither the Tartaria tablets, nor the sumerian symbols have been deciphered, but they are considered "writing" by the same principle of abstraction.
		The spiritual and scientific preocupations of this ancient culture can be seen in the calendars they left us, which are made up by structures simmilar to those found in the Britannic peninsula.
	www.geticagame.com /index.php?section=dacians&categ=civilization (848 words)

	CLAY TABLET Articles from AMAZINES.COM - The Article Database and EZine Publishers Database
		Small tablets made out of clay were used from 5500 BC Tartaria tablets and later from 4th millennium BC onwards as a writing medium in Sumerian, other Mesopotamian, Hittite, and Minoan/Mycenaean civilizations.
		The Tartaria tablets of the Danubian civilisation may be older still, having been carbon dated to before 4000BC, but their interpretation remains controversial.
		Tablets serving as labels, with the impression of the side of a wicker basket on the back, and tablets showing yearly summaries, suggest a sophisticated accounting system.
	www.amazines.com /Clay_tablet_related.html (467 words)

	Old European Script Information
		The discovery of the Tartaria tablets in Romania by Nicolae Vassa in 1961 reignited the debate.
		Vassa believed the inscriptions to be pictograms and the finds were subsequently carbon-dated to before 4000BC, thirteen hundred years earlier than the date he expected, and earlier even than the writing systems of the Sumerians and Minoans.
		Clay amulet, one of the Tartaria tablets unearthed near Tartaria, Romania, and dated to ca.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Old_European_Script (1670 words)

	Tartaria tablets - InformationBlast
		The three Tartaria tablets are probably amulets or votive tablets, which bear incised symbols that are believed by some to be a very early form of writing.
		The tablets are named after Tărtăria, Transylvania, Romania, where they were found.
		Vlassa dated his find ca 4500 BC and associated it with the so-called Vinca culture, interpreting the Tartaria tablets as a hunting scene and the other two with signs, as a kind of primitive writing that he related to the Ancient Near East.
	www.informationblast.com /Tartaria_tablets.html (378 words)

	Lazarovici
		Her special research interest are the altarpieces, and she has made a synthetic presentation of the meaning of these symbols.
		Masson (1977, 1984), analyzing tablet 2 and 3 from Tartaria, believed that they represent a writing system in a primary developing stage, expressed in a descriptive and symbolic manner.
		Many other studies and references are related to the Tartaria tablets, but they do not relate directly to the subject presented here.
	www.geocities.com /symbolscom/Lazarovici (525 words)

	A little about .. History
		At Tartaria, in an ancient tomb he found 2 tablets with inscriptions that were dated from 4500-200 BC.Tartaria, is located in Alba county, Saliste.
		The tablets have been dated with C14 and it is officially confirmed that the inscriptions on them are the oldest form of writing known to man, outdating the sumerian ones.
		It is taught that Sumerians are descendents of the culture that created the tablets and that they migrated from the area where the discoveries were made later to become one of the most advanced civilizations of the Ancient World.
	orosandrei.blogspot.com (2427 words)

	The chronological begining
		Tartaria upon Mures River (Transylvania, 5 miles from downtown Orastie City)
		some small clay tablets dated 4,800 - 4,500 B.C., considered by the same Gimbutas as the very first written message in human history, much before the Sumerians tablets (probably arising also from the Danube).
		The traces of our Carpatho-Danubian culture are still present today on some of these islands (old mountain crests), "amazing" (!?) the researchers who cannot imagine the way cultures like that of the Mycenaeans could have emerged in some isolated islands; they "cannot see the forest because of a tree".
	www.angelfire.com /md/Orastie/beginhis.html (708 words)

	The Tartaria Tablets - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		The tablets are generally believed to have belonged to the Vinča culture, which at the time was believed by Serbian and Romanian archaeologists to have originated around 2700 BC.
		Vlassa interpreted the Tărtăria tablets as a hunting scene and the other two with signs as a kind of primitive writing similar to the early pictograms of the Sumerians.
		However, subsequent radiocarbon dating on the Tartaria finds pushed the date of the tablets (and therefore of the whole Vinča culture) much further back, to as long ago as 5500 BC, well before the Sumerian era [2] (although this is disputed in the light of apparently contradictory stratigraphic evidence [3]).
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=110905 (1334 words)

	Virtual Museum of the Inscriptions
		A class of widely used signs has been found only on pottery, except for occurrences on the Tartaria tablets and the Lepenski Vir stone.
		signs that are generally important in a group context are significantly associated with usage on spindle whorls, tablets and figurines;
		The latter signs are characteristic script signs and many of them occur on the Tartaria tablets and the Lepenski Vir stone.
	www.prehistory.it /ftp/winn3.htm (244 words)

	Tărtăria tablets
		The tablets are generally believed to have belonged to the Vinča culture, which at the time was believed by Yugoslav and Romanian archaeologists to have originated around 2700 BC.
		David Anthony notes that Chinese characters were first used for ritual and commemorative purposes associated with the sacred power of kings; it is possible that a similar usage accounts for the Tărtăria symbols.
		Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Tartaria_tablets (2119 words)

	Institute Of Transcendent Science
		The Tablets from Gradeshnitsa, Tartaria and Karanovo, found in the land of Ancient Thrace, predate similar artifacts found in Egypt by about two thousand years.
		As already mentioned, the pictographic symbol that immediately caught our attention from the beginning, and even from our very first glance on the Amulet of Tartaria, was the Pictogram meaning “Thrace” and “Thracian”, which we already know quite well from the first book of the series The Thracian Script Decoded.
		Remember, it was first identified on the Djer (Tser) Tablet (found in Egypt, circa 3000 BCE, and kept at the British Museum) and then upon the Votive Tablet from Gradeshnitsa (found in Thrace, circa 5000 BCE and kept at the Vratsa Regional Museum, Bulgaria)!
	www.institutet-science.com /en/tartariae.php (1192 words)

	old_european_script_Vinča_alphabet_Vinča_script_Vinča_Tordos_script_tartaria_tablets-stone_sitovo
		Chronology of the Neolithic in Transylvania, in the Light of the Tartaria Settlement's Stratigraphy, Dacia, N.S. Einege Bemerkungen zu Fragen des Neolithikums in Siebenbürgen, Studijné Zvesti, 17:513-540.
		The Position of the Tartaria Tablets within the Southeast European Copper Age, American Journal of Archaeology, 87:209-213.
		Chronology of the Neolithic in Transylvania, in the Light of the Tartaria Settlement's Stratigraphy, Dacia, N.S. Einege Bemerkungen zu Fragen des Neolithikums in Siebenbürgen, Studijné Zvesti, 17:513‑540.
	www.uned.es /geo-1-historia-antigua-universal/ESCRITURAS_ANTIGUA/Escrituras_antiguas_europa.htm (2819 words)

	Estrogen Tablets: 2006-09-10 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A guild of tabletiers (makers of waxed tablets) flourished in Paris by the...
		Vlassa interpreted the Tartaria tablets as a hunting scene and the other two with signs as a kind of primitive writing similar to the early pictograms of...
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	www.laychaksmuskybay.com /Estrogen-Tablets/2006_09_10_archive.html (10228 words)

	Tartary
		Tartary (or Tartaria) is a old term that referred to that region of Asia east of the Ural mountains.
		Originally, and before Zheng He and Christopher Columbus, it meant every part of the world that excluded Europe and Africa to the Europeans.
		T?rt?ria is also a village in Romania which gained fame after discovery of Tartaria tablets.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/t/ta/tartary.html (122 words)

	Oldest writing on Earth found in ROMANIA \| Antimoon Forum
		In Transylvania, it was the discovery in 1961 of three inscribed tablets TARTARIA TABLETS regarding the possibility that writing in the Danube basin predated the earliest Sumerian cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphics.
		The three ROMANIAN Tărtăria tablets are probably amulets or votive tablets, which bear incised symbols that are claimed to be the EARLIEST KNOWN FORM OF WRITING IN THE WORLD.
		Also a women skeleton was found with the tablets, the same age as the tablets, dating from 5000 bc.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t2564.htm (1521 words)

	Romania - History - Stone Age - Neolithic Era
		At Tartaria, in Transylvania, archaeologists have uncovered numerous anthropomorphic figurines manufactured by the Vinca culture.
		The "writing" on the Tartaria tablets has been dated to 4800-4500 BC, much earlier than any of the tablets in Sumeria.
		The skeleton of a woman was found near the "pit" where the tablets were found.
	www.romerica.com /rom/hist_ston_neo.htm (2553 words)

	editing greeks from history: Mycenaean origin of Phoenician alphabet
		The deciphering of Linear B by Michael Ventris in 1953 was accomplished because the Cypriot Script was already understood and known to be Greek.
		This tablet representing consonants is an exact contemporary of the "Mycenaean" Greek Syllabic Script represented in Linear B. Compare the reed-imprint (cuneiform) of the Levantine-coast script (above) with its contemporary Linear B Greek script (below) which is incised ("scratched").
		The speculation regarding the tablets was that if they were writing then their origin had to lie in transmission from the Near East, on the supposition/assertion that "The barbaric priests of Europe [merely] sought to imitate their cultural 'superiors' from the east by superstitiously seizing upon writing for magical purposes.." (p.61) without really understanding it.
	www.vakras.com /editing-greeks-history.html (5363 words)

	Replies
		most of those who had previously characterized the Tartaria tablets and analogous Vinca signs as genuine writing did so on the mistaken assumption that they were later than Sumerian and could always be neatly 'explained' as somewhat pale imitations of Near Eastern intellectual innovations.
		We have also seen how many scholars, on realising that the Vinca signs were simply too early to be derived from Mesopotamia, abruptly dropped the question...
		For others, who had tried and failed to bolster the traditional chronology for prehistoric southeastern Europe by invoking the Tartaria tablets as a refutation of radiocarbon dates, the tablets were simply dismissed as meaningless jumbles of signs."
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/1091680/replies?c=38 (506 words)

	THE ORIGIN OF WRITING:
		Others tablets and a lot of artifacts have been found as part of it, belonging indeed to a proto-European culture, Danubian culture, that is more widespread than it is ascertained today.
		the inscribed Tartaria tablets accompanied the charred bones of an individual in a grave.
		These include not only the Tartaria but also Turdas tablets from Transylvania (studied by N. Vlassa and others), the artifacts of the Vinca cultural area in Serbia (studied, notably, by Shan Winn), and isolated objects from Bulgaria such as the Gradesnica plaque and the much-discussed (and variously interpreted) Karanovo Seal.
	www.dacia.org /no-one.html (3938 words)

	Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » metafilter provides more links on new civilization, but muddies the story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I don’t know who was in the area 5,000 years ago, but i’d lay good odds that it was not the Germans.
		I’m wondering if this is going to tie into the Vinca culture or the Tartaria tablets.
		This entry was posted on Saturday, June 11th, 2005 at 10:23 pm by badgerminor and is filed under General, History, Archaeology.
	orbis-quintus.net /blog/?p=1517 (384 words)

	Amazon.com: Tartaria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fauna in the Indus script & the Tartaria tablets (Indus script monograph) by John Newberry (Unknown Binding - 1988)
		THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES, of Fernand Mendez Pinto, A Portugal: During his Travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan and a great part of the East-Indiaes...
		Directions in the Indus script & seasonal rations in the Vinca-Tartaria tablets (Indus script monograph) by John Newberry (Unknown Binding - 1989)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Tartaria&index=blended&page=1 (865 words)

	Fauna in the Indus Script & the Tartaria Tablets by John Newberry
		Fauna in the Indus Script and the Tartaria Tablets by John Newberry
		Book Details Summary: The title of this book is Fauna in the Indus Script & the Tartaria Tablets and it was written by John Newberry.
		This edition of Fauna in the Indus Script & the Tartaria Tablets is in a Book format.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0921599390 (131 words)

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