The "dark ages" were also thousands of years after the Sumerians. Even the Greek Dark Age postdates Sumer by a millennium.
replySo you're not really filling me with confidence about your idea here. Perhaps you can provide some sort of evidence?
> and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language … is often erroneously attributed
replyWould you mind being a little clearer about what it is you’re saying here?
Can you give us a few pointers or links?
replyNot the OP but there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_symbols
replySome people also interpret some symbols on mammoth tusks going back 50k years as writing but that's a stretch IMO.
Interpreting Vinca symbols as a full-blown writing system is also widely considered a stretch.
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