On almost forty archaeological sites across the Balkans an abundant treasury of written records not only testified of a high level of literacy attained in the Neolithic period, but also confirmed the high level of consciousness of that world. All this offered sufficient possibilities to view this ancient world in its true light and to reject old prejudices and false constructions of its spiritual stuntedness. By disregard of the most sanctimonious heritage of that ancient world, the world of literacy, that world was deprived of its rightful part of a torchbearer of literacy, which was taken to another part of the world where a completely different civilization flourished, a civilization which put forth the material over the spiritual, or at least put a sign of equality between them.
The history confirmed that the change of conceptions meant at the same time appropriations of civilizations' heritages. This was the case with the Balkan's ravished civilization. For almost ten thousand years world has been unable to cope with its own projections.
Up to 1980, the ample literacy fund from the Neolithic period in the Balkans was inadequately categorized only as vague hints of a script with the aim to renounce the script as a heritage to other civilizations. From that date on, the material has been researched as the authentic literacy of civilizations inhabiting the Middle Danube Basin, which transmitted this tradition in the course of time up to the present days, expanding it to all the four sides of the world.
In 1987, in Milan, the system of the script was presented and interpreted on the basis of documentation and
named Vincha script after the most copious excavation site. From that very moment, the Vincha script as a character script, originating from the VI millennium, entered into encyclopedias and became the subject researched at the European universities. This caused the change and adjustment of the existing chronology and development of the script as follows:
1. Proto-script of Lepenski Vir (8000-6000 B.C.) 2. Vincha script (5300-3200 B.C.)
3. Sumerian script in Mesopotamia (3100 B.C. - 75 AD.)
4. Proto-Elamitic script (between 3000 and 2000 B.C.)
5. Proto-Indic script (ca.2200 B.C.)
6. Chinese script (from 1300 B.C. to the present times)
7. Egyptian script (3000 B.C. - 400 A.D.) 8. Cretan script (2000-1200 B.C.)
9. Hittite script (1600-777 B.C.)
The former chronology given by the American grammarian LE.Gelb had to give way to the new one without resentment. All kinds of surmisable, construed and arbitrary inferences were defeated by the veracity of documentation. The Vincha script originated and lasted within its own system and the Etruscans had rightfully named the system of the script as elements (elements) meaning alphabet.
The Slavs, mutually estranged, opposed and humiliated, have only now clearly cognized, why the history of their civilization had been so long screened and falsified and why they themselves had to use falsification originals to create their own history. All this is an additional factor helping the Slavs this time not to postpone their wakening up.
The history of the Slavs was written by the non-Slavs. Here I want to point out to the so-called Nordic (German) historical school, ignoring immensely the Slav civilization, offering more a projection instead of the truth, more a creation instead of cognition. It is a history serving the eternal policy of higher races, with a strong tendency to underestimate achievements of the Slav civilization in all the fields of their spiritual and material activities. The mentioned historical school refuses to acknowledge the mention of the Slavs in the ancient history, in spite of an abundant source on the Slav civilization to be found with Herodotus. When numbering the tribes of Scythians, Thraceans, Illyrians, Peonians, Daradanians, Mesapy, Yapodi, Sarmatians, Pelagonians, Dacians... he never mentioned them by the name of Slavs. The later researches, however, especially the archaeological discoveries in the region between the rivers the Dnepr and the Dnestr, known as the Tripolje culture shall prove they were Slav tribes, for the population living in those regions and consisting mainly of Slav tribes, migrated across the Balkans as far as Crete. It is obvious, the Tripolje culture is not the only factor for the science to conclude that the Slavs occupied the vast expanses on the line Dnepr-Dnestr-Balkan-Crete three thousand years ago. The discoveries of the blood groups by the French archaeologist Luis Carpantier, beside the anthropological researches, supported the above mentioned. In science, the Middle Danube Basin as the cradle of literacy is known as - the linear script. It appeared first on the archaeological site of Lepenski Vir and then in Vincha. "The peoples of the book", the Slavs, wrote on wood in the pre-Cyrillic era, they did incise letter on wood. Many messages and prayers remained recorded on the birch slabs and later collected into a book. During the Roman civilization, this book shall be named "codex", that is to say "a wooden book". This book for the
Slavs is not only a wooden book; it is the spiritual law in the real sense of the word
The research of the American linguist Morris Swadesh is very illustrative. During the fifties of the twentieth century, he introduced his linguistic research methodology, later to be accepted in the science as grammatology. He asserted that the German language had separated from the Slav language five thousand years before Christ and this assertion has been accepted by other world linguists. Later researches confirmed the close relations of the Slav and the German languages, the best proof of it were the Lusatians (Sorbs, Wends) living in the German region. Tacitus map from the first century A. D. showing location of Slav tribes within the confines of the contemporary Germany, is one proof more. The Slav tribes living in these regions resisted assimilation up to the eighth and the ninth centuries A. D. with the exception of the Lusatians who succeeded to survive. The Study by Xaver Marme from 1874 researches their life, customs, religion and literacy.
During the 19th century great number of researchers tried to enlighten many dark moments of the Slav history.
But, the new historiography rejected the research results of this age, failing to offer any argumentative facts for such an act.
Our historiography maintains the Slavs to have come to the Balkans in the sixth and seventh centuries A. D. This we have been taught from the old times. It is the first information given to pupils at school. We know only what others have told us. Our science has failed to make even one step further. Our historiography maintains the Slavs to be illiterate up to the ninth century A. D., when at the same time the Arabian travelling writers call them "peoples of the book". When one hears our historians to assert that the Slavs settled
over here only in the sixth and the seventh centuries A. D., while the researches point out to a civilization as old as three thousand years before Christ, one cannot but conclude that somebody had falsified on purpose all this or held information back in order to prove the backwardness of the Slav civilization as compared to other nations of Europe. And what is more, they refer to the civilization as having settled on
somebody else's regions, which implies no more and no less
that, they were the occupying one! The complex of the eternal wanderers and newcomers has obviously been purposefully
programmed and imposed. Our generations live with this
complex over centuries. Living in the false history is really
the cause of many misunderstandings and mutual conflicts in the large Slav civilization.
Majority surrenders to the minority, and vice versa, thus, many analogues in linguistics were the result of the fact that the world spoke a universal language. And the science, instead of researching the language unity of the Slav formation, followed somebody's dictation to list the Slav languages into the Indo-European languages, i.e. Indo- Germanic, which appeared much later. The theory of the Indo- European languages is only a screen behind which the politicians wanted to hide the real values of the Slav civilization. Together with the mission of Cyril and Methodius, two very successful programs were created to hide the truth about a large civilization.
In May 1991, at a meeting of archaeologists in Florence, the English archaeologist Colin Renfrew said that the archaeology very often served the political aims. "When the oil crisis hit the West, the archaeology invented the theory of chaos and catastrophe. Very often, archaeology serves the current politics by not disclosing some of the archaeological achievements". Instead of a comment, I could answer this as
follows: Lepenski Vir would not have been discovered, if the hydroelectric station of Djerdap had not been built. Our archaeologist discovered the site in Chelarevo near Novi Sad with two lines of graves. In one line, Avars were buried, in the other the Slavs. Our archaeologists researched the graves of the Avars and the Hazars, for the contents therein - jewelry for instance. The bulldozers of the Chelarevo brick factory destroyed the Slav graves because they were empty. This very fact is self-explaining and proves that the Slavs were not plunderers and did not adorn themselves with jewelry, but that they were peaceful farmers. Unfortunately, the traces of their skeletons disappeared as the documents of their existence.
But I am convinced the era of the Slavs is coming. For seven decades, the Slav civilization has been living under a heavy pressure, and the world, having accumulated sufferings for so long, could achieve its renaissance for that reason only. Such are the orders of things. The West wanted to throw the East on its knees without any knowledge of the Slavdom. The Slavdom does not bear humiliations and failure, the Balkans as well. The West has forgotten the other name for the Balkans - Catena Mundi (the chain of the world). The world superficially calls the Balkans a powder keg, unconscious of the fact that the balance of the world will be destroyed if only one link in the chain is broken and that the unrest in the Balkans would cause unrest in the whole of Europe. If that happens, all its dreams of unity will disappear forever. Finally, Sioran formulated it in the most beautiful way by saying: "Only the peoples of the Balkans can solve the spiritual and material crisis the West world is heading to, regardless of the overall technical development. That world is tired and without a compass. The West has to turn towards the East, by all means, for the Sun also appears in the East.