Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and…
The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and the assemblage mixes Palaeolithic, Neolithic and alphabetic types that no Iron Age culture produced together.
What it means
Key questionAre the inscribed tablets of Glozel ancient objects, and if so from what period?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Still possibleunchanged
Next steps 3
1
Join the dates table (glozel_dates.csv) to tablet identities in Morlet's Corpus and the museum numbers, and mark which dated objects are inscribed; test whether inscribed objects fall disproportionately in the modern TL group.
~6 h
—not judged
2
Extract the full 1976 TL sample table (Persée racf.1976.2018) and the 2023 Guilaine-Miallier date lists into the dates dataset so every published date is in one machine-readable file with its laboratory and sampling surface.
~5 h
—not judged
3
Request access to the Musée de Glozel and the MAN holdings to photograph every TL-dated tablet's sign floors under low-power microscopy and record whether each sign was cut before or after firing.
~24 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 3
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and… [Evidence EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ
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title = {The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ}
}