# Later intrusive tablets showing Mesopotamian contact

> Still possible: The Tărtăria tablets are ancient but intrusive: objects of about 3000 BC reflecting contact with Mesopotamian writing, which worked their…

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# Later intrusive tablets showing Mesopotamian contact

The Tărtăria tablets are ancient but intrusive: objects of about 3000 BC reflecting contact with Mesopotamian writing, which worked their way into an older Vinča deposit.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Direct dating of the tablets gives a late fourth- or third-millennium BC result.
- The tablets' clay or technique differs from the Vinča pottery of the pit.
- Comparable grouped-sign tablets turn up in third-millennium Balkan or Anatolian contexts.

## What would rule it out

- Direct dating gives a sixth-millennium result consistent with the bones.
- The sign matches with Jemdet Nasr are shown to be no better than chance matches with any set of simple geometric signs.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[Hood found the Tărtăria signs comparable with those of Uruk III and Jemdet Nasr tablets of about 3000 BC.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEEAKR89ABJ/hood-found-the-tartaria-signs-comparable-with-those-of-uruk)

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FOR

[Nothing dated from the Tărtăria pit is later than about 5100 cal BC, and no third-millennium material has been…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/evidence/EVD0DEEAN4ZY1NW/nothing-dated-from-the-tartaria-pit-is-later-than-about-5100)

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AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[When were the Tărtăria tablets made, and are they genuine Neolithic objects from the pit Vlassa described?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/vinca-signs/questions/QST0DEDW337CVM0/when-were-the-tartaria-tablets-made-and-are-they-genuine)

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