{"id":4220,"date":"2010-06-12T19:31:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T19:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/vinca-culture\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:06:29","slug":"vinca-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/vinca-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinca Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/strong> Vinca<\/strong> C<\/strong>ulture <\/strong>flourished between 6,500 and 3,500 BC, in the region of \"Vincanska_civilizacija_5300-3500_g_p_n\"<\/a>the Eastern Danube and is considered to have had contact with the better-known civilisation of Sumer. It is also accepted that Vinca influenced the development of the later Minoan civilisation. This is exemplified by the Vinca writing and its close resemblance to the Linear A script of ancient Crete<\/a> and the shared motif of the double axe. The Vinca Culture developed houses arranged in streets, produced high-quality ceramics and were able to fashion copper. Furthermore, there is now (2013) clear evidence of tin bronze being fashioned around 4650 BC at a Vinca site in Serbia(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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>><\/span><\/strong>Philip Coppens<\/a> wrote that “Before Sumer, Crete or the Maltese civilisation, there was \u201cOld Europe\u201d, or the Vinca culture\u2026 a forgotten, rather than lost civilisation that lies at the true origin of most of our ancient civilisations.”<\/em> (d)<\/sup><<<\/span><\/strong>
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Although there has been no suggestion of any link between Vinca and Atlantis, apart from Christian and Siegfried Schoppe<\/a>, who identified the Vinca people as refugees from Atlantis(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Supporters of the early date given by Plato for Atlantis see the Vinca civilisation as evidence for the possibility of a very early culture having existed and providing inspiration for the Atlantis story. Consequently, the Schoppes<\/a> have suggested that the Vinca script may have provided the means whereby the Atlantis story was transmitted, relatively intact, to the Egyptians(b)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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However, it must be noted that although Vinca was \u2018advanced\u2019 it came nowhere near to the detailed description of Atlantis offered by Plato.<\/p>\n

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See: Tartaria Tablets<\/a><\/p>\n

(a)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.stonepages.com\/news\/archives\/005197.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190830053312\/https:\/\/www.black-sea-atlantis.com\/black-sea-atlantis\/<\/a><\/p>\n

(c)\u00a0<\/sup> The Vinca – Atlantis refugees (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> Old Europe | Philip Coppens | Getarum Terra (wordpress.com)<\/a> \u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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