This first issue of Re: marks, the journal of SIGNUM, gathers a selection of the papers that were presented at the 1st SIGNUM International Conference on Mark Studies, held at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm on October 18th & 19th, 2012. Articles explore the temporal depth and geographic breadth of the use of nonlinguistic marks, following the main conference themes. Contents include: "Some Problems Related to Early Medieval Turkic Tamga-Sign Studies", by Sergey A. Yatsenko; "Type Parlant Coins of the Cities of Asia Minor in the Archaic and Classical Periods", by H. T. Akdogar and M. Tezcan; "Tamgas and Literacy Among the Ancient Iranians", by Niccol Manassero; "The Study of Lapidary Signs: A Discourse on Method", by Jean-Louis Van Belle; "Publishers' Devices As Indicators of Legal Continuity", by Melinda Simon; "From Marks to Ogham: Rethinking Writing in Gallaecia", by Jo m Evans Pim; and "The Mark of Commerce: Uncertainty In Mark Predication", by Oliver Timken Perrin.
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