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A clay tablet nobody can read
Top Image: Members of the archaeological team process finds during excavations at the Bronze Age settlement of Lucone di Polpenazze near Lake Garda in northern Italy. The waterlogged Bronze Age settlement has yielded an exceptional collection of artifacts, including the site's enigmatic tablets. Source: Scavi al Lucone/Museo Archeologico della Valle Sabbia.

A clay tablet nobody can read

Lucone di Polpenazze, Italy. about 4,000 years old. First cities. Debated. Free

Debated. The tablet has lines, dots, and shapes, and nobody has shown that they are writing.

The tablet was found at Lucone di Polpenazze, near Lake Garda, in northern Italy. It is about 4,000 years old. Tree rings date wooden posts at the village to about 2034 to 1967 BC. This clay tablet is intact. It is the third of its kind from the area now being dug, and the plain has now given 21 such tablets. The village stood in a wet basin, and a fire plus wet ground kept wood, plants, and other remains.

The page says the signs might be a calendar, a token, or a trade note, and none of those ideas is agreed.

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