In 1921, a young lad at the age of 16 called Emile Fradin found the clay tablet which dates back to 14,000 to 16,000 years old.
Man knew to write at the ice age !!! and the writing is deciphered as
A vehement controversy ensued among authorities. Both the authenticity and the antiquity of the artifacts were vigorously debated. Finally in 1927 a worldwide body of Academicians was convened to settle the dispute. The blue chip panel concluded that the Glozel discoveries were outright forgeries, manufactured and planted by the young French lad to be "accidentally" discovered. The decision brought bitter disillusionment and anquish to young Fradin that can never be recompensed.
Two things of extreme importance should be mentioned here: 1) this decision took place before our modern dating methods—such as Carbon-14, fission-track, fluorine, thermoluminescence, and paleomagnetism—were developed; 2) the infamous Piltdown controversy was still raging and the anthropological community was in the throes of extreme embarrassment. The Piltdown fiasco wasn't settled until 1950 when fluorine testing exposed it as a hoax.
The academic argument against the validity of the find was the depiction of extinct animals alongside Phoenician-like writing. How could someone be using Phoenician characters before the Phoenicians had invented them? To accept such an anachronism would be folly, and could throw the whole neatly organized picture of the history of writing awry.
On the other hand, this question occurs to me: How could anyone carve a picture of an animal he has never seen? Moreover, the agreement between the Magdalenian artifacts (14,000-10,000 B.C.) and the depiction of Ice Age animals favor the antiquity of the find. It was not until forty-five years later that anything constructive was done to quell the controversy.
During the late 1960s Mr. Gavn Majdahl, a physicist on the staff of Denmark's Atomic Energy Commission Research Laboratory, had been doing research on the development and application of a dating method recently invented in Britain. Known today as thermoluminescence dating, it is especially suited for dating clay artifacts. The development was being financed by Denmark's Governmental Research Council and the Atomic Energy Center.
Having learned of this, Mr. Sture Eilow, a Swedish amateur archeologist, approached Majdahl with the idea of using the new technique to determine the date of the Glozel materials. Majdahl liked the suggestion, and agreed to do it.
The tests were conducted on the Glozel artifacts, and lo, all the "experts" had been wrong! The tests proved conclusively that the Glozel material dated from the late Ice Age. Incredulous experts took the material to Scotland to undergo another battery of tests, this time at Edinburgh's prestigious Natural Museum of Antiquities. This second series of tests confirmed the first ones, putting the antiquity and authenticity of the Glozel artifacts beyond question! Emile Fradin had been vindicated after nearly fifty years of humiliation.
Man knew to write at the ice age !!! and the writing is deciphered as
"Spaceships approaching, spaceships... Oh, for diminishing are the eternity-built workings of the stars."
"Jupiter: that preventing life from want, for the stars he is, shining Vishnu, good for protection, oh eternity, killer of suffering, for delivering works of the life of the era, oh inundation swelling."
"Jupiter: that declining brilliance, evil building, also death, reducing the good spaceships' brilliance for granting, darkness growing, oh, the era for delivering that, for the flooding."
"For brilliance is dwindling for granting the good mother, the one hero's measured breath of life, for also cursing, granting breath, works of the good life, works of the two for granting, for good."
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