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Deconstructing the myth of the Dispilio Tablet and Early Writing

The Prehistory Guys 11,534 2 months ago
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PLOT SPOILER: what we think is the Dispilio Tablet is actually something else. Is it early writing from 5,000 BC? Not so fast ... There we were, innocently looking for good locations to shoot for Göbekli Tepe to Stonehenge (see below) and we come upon the Neolithic lakeside settlement of Dispilio in northern Greece. All well and good. Then it came to light that there was such a thing as the Dispilio Tablet, which seemed to have a very significant claim to fame: the earliest writing? And so it began ... 🟡 Donate to the GÖBEKLI TEPE to STONEHENGE PROJECT here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/prehisto... 🔴 Become a PATREON member here: / theprehistoryguys 00:00 - Intro & titles 00:55 - Where it all began 02:30 - Genesis of a controversy 06:43 - The internet adopts the wrong tablet 08:26 - Is there writing on the original? 09:23 - The error grows 11:14 - An explanation for the marks on the tablet 14:42 - Where is the original? 15:21 - An early retraction and bizarre interpretations 17:04 - What about the 'imposter tablet'? 20:28 - Beware the internet! 21:49 - Rounding up & goodbyes WEBSITE: https://theprehistoryguys.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprehistoryguys/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/prehistoryguy.bsky.social Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prehistoryguys

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