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Any dates before recorded/written history should be assumed to have a large margin of error, on the order of +/-500 years, especially true for all dates earlier
by glitchc 3y ago
Any dates before recorded/written history should be assumed to have a large margin of error, on the order of +/-500 years, especially true for all dates earlier than 1000 BCE. We don't have a precise way of dating. Carbon dating requires longer timescales and the writing substrates used (typically stone) contain minimal traces.
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- wl 3y agoLate third millennium BCE is the era of written history in Mesopotamia. There are documents with dates. There’s some debates about how we might line up their dates with our calendar, but the discrepancies are nowhere near 500 years.