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"But, as with all such judgement-activities, experts can disagree, often by several decades, even a century or so, and sometimes even more." That sure escalate
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
"But, as with all such judgement-activities, experts can disagree, often by several decades, even a century or so, and sometimes even more."
That sure escalated in a hurry! Decades... Century... More than a Century. Still, I get it, when the next best tool (radiocarbon dating) deals in millennia.
- r0muald 10y ago> "carbon-14 testing can’t really do more than offer a certain probability for a timeframe of approximately a century or so: about the same timeframe that palaeographers can offer" The main takeaway is that the scale of both methods is essentially the same, and will rarely span more than 100 years, for the time frame of interest to papyrologists.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI find it oddly comforting that the most sophisticated dating techniques are no better than what amounts to academic consensus.