Saturday, September 4, 2010

TARTARIA - A CONTROVERSIAL DATING

Dating about three tablets, archaeological documentation is still not 100% sure.Tărtăria tablets seem to belong migrations Vinca civilization, one of the oldest European culture with a known length of about eight centuries, when such a writing system was used not only in southeastern Europe but also in the area of the proto-Sumerian civilizations. Meanwhile, other scientists have dated the artifacts in the third millennium BC V and VI the second half of the first millennium BC. According to them, tablets are the first attestations of a European ancient writings. In present days, the controversy continues. But what really happened to Tartaria? A further analysis of the findings, made after he made more light on this case.
In fact, the tablets have never been analyzed using radiocarbon, but this has not prevented the legends to be born around the subject. According to Romanian archaeologists, tablets cant be dated by C14 treatment because they were unwittingly subjected. It seems that archaeologist Nicholas Vlassa archaeological site is not in the moment of discovery that took place several hours before completion of the excavation. Tablets were soft and covered by limestone due to moisture. In order to strengthen one of the restorers decided to dry them in the oven located in the museum laboratory, but the temperature and baking time remained unknown. After this treatment, tablets could not be subjected to C14 dating, because of heat stress compromise the quality of the clay, essential if a carbon analysis. Many domestic and foreign archaeologists complain that Vlassa not photographed artifacts when he unearthed it and refused to cooperate with his colleagues, while avoiding to give too many details about his discoveries in the reports that regularly draw be content to repeat the same information as the news.
Lack of photos at the website and especially difficult to locate even today, combined with other factors such as the inability to precisely date plates, difficult to identify a powerful civilization in the Danube basin could to "produce" written 1000 years before Sumer, all these factors has prompted generations of archaeologists and historians to doubt the role that the tablets could play precise determination chronology and ask questions about their true Birth place of civilization.


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