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Seems like you would first want to translate the oldest tablets. One thing I'm not clear about is how these things are dated, Is radiocarbon dating accurate for
by guelo 10y ago
Seems like you would first want to translate the oldest tablets. One thing I'm not clear about is how these things are dated, Is radiocarbon dating accurate for clay tablets?
- madaxe_again 10y agoThey commonly have bits of organic material in the clay, so yes. Also, the stratigraphy provides some degree of chronology, although iirc a lot of the tablets come from a single hittite document storage facility which had collapsed on itself, so...