From: William J Poser (wjposer@ldc.upenn.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2008 - 18:46:27 CDT
>Possibly, but probably only if the author of this paper presents the
>results of a thermoluminescence dating test on the disc.
Sure. I have no axe to grind here or knowledge of what is in the
forthcoming paper. My point is simply that a present consensus doesn't
mean that much. Certain kinds of evidence could overturn a consensus
that the disc is very plausibly a genuine antiquity. The evidence for
genuineness consists of plausibility plus the context of the find,
and the latter apparently depends entirely on the word of the
discoverer, Pernier.
Bill
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