Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

Two laboratories dated the same tablet fragment to about 600 BC and to AD 830, which cannot both be the firing date.

Supported0

What it means

Key questionDo the thermoluminescence dates on the Glozel ceramics record the original firing or a later reheating?

2 answers, none ahead yet

Openunchanged

Answer this evidence bears onThe TL dates are firing dates

Counts against1 for, 1 against

Still possibleunchanged

Next steps 1

Add the 2023 Guilaine-Miallier dates and the full 1976 TL sample table to the dates dataset, with sampling surfaces.

~5 h

On: Do the thermoluminescence dates on the Glozel ceramics record the original firing or a later reheating?

—not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

Sources 1

Résumé des recherches effectuées à Glozel entre 1983 et 1990, sous l'égide du ministère de la Culture

Daugas et al. 1995

SRC

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Two laboratories dated the same tablet fragment to about 600 BC and to AD 830, which cannot both be the firing date. [Evidence EVD0DEDYVZMBR9X]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYVZMBR9X

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  title     = {Two laboratories dated the same tablet fragment to about 600 BC and to AD 830, which cannot both be the firing date.},
  author    = {{Mysteries Department}},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDYVZMBR9X},
  url       = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDYVZMBR9X}
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