> The odds are overwhelming that there was a lot of material comparable to this ring before and after 1500 BC. "A lot" is a fairly vague quantifier, but I'd wa

> The odds are overwhelming that there was a lot of material comparable to this ring before and after 1500 BC. "A lot" is a fairly vague quantifier, but I'd wager you're wrong regardless of how you define it. We've now collectively spent about a century excavating all of the most interesting sites that we can find, and still this artifact is unique enough that the archeologist in charge of this excavation is quoted as saying: > This seal should be included in all forthcoming art history texts, and will change the way that prehistoric art is viewed. Are there other artifacts like this one from the same time period? Almost certainly. But apparently they're rare enough that we're finding them at the rate of about one per century.