Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
Of about 40 TL and radiocarbon dates only one, a pooled and contaminated bone sample of about 17,000 years that its…
Of about 40 TL and radiocarbon dates only one, a pooled and contaminated bone sample of about 17,000 years that its authors discount, is older than the Iron Age, and the 1983 trenches found no Neolithic layer.
What it means
Key questionAre the inscribed tablets of Glozel ancient objects, and if so from what period?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onGlozel is a Neolithic station and its tablets carry the oldest alphabet known.
Counts againstnone for, 1 against
Still possiblewas No evidence yet
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 2
SRC
The Scientific Analyses of Glozel
SRCGerard et al. 2004
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Of about 40 TL and radiocarbon dates only one, a pooled and contaminated bone sample of about 17,000 years that its… [Evidence EVD0DEDY8K8VNMA]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY8K8VNMA
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