New paper on Zodiacal Dating published



Recently published online in the Athens Journal of History. This paper tracks some cases of the zodiacal dating system, from Palaeolithic cave art, circa 15,000 BC, through the Picts circa 500 AD. It also links Pictish symbols with the Ancient Egyptian gods. Enjoy.

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  1. AnonymousMay 26, 2020 at 8:34 AM

    Hm, what prompted you to change your mind and switch your dating from your original 10,950 BC +/- 250 a, which agrees with the Petaev's 10,950 +/- 3 to 10,835 BP, which does not ? Is it that Bayesian analysis paper from the YD team ? That one was signed by so many people, but 'peer reviewed' for 3 days only, namely not at all. You can thus fairly discard that paper. You and Petaev have done much better dating. They did not.

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    1. Prehistory DecodedOctober 8, 2020 at 1:25 AM

      Just noticed your comment. Simply because the date 10,950 +- 250 does not use all the information on the pillar - it ignores the winter solstice constellation being Gemini, as shown on Pillar 43 by the middle 'handbag'. The new date takes this into account and is more precise. The date from Petaev et al. (10,940 BC) based on the platinum spike is from the GISP2 ice core, which has an associated uncertainty of over 100 years due to ice layer counting errors. Yes, samples are taken roughly every 3 years, and the platinum signal itself has a half-width of around 10 years, but it the GISP2 ice core chronology uncertainty at this time is dominated by ice layer counting errors - and corrected in the GICC05 chronology which shifts it to much smaller dates. The Bayesian analysis of the YD team, which is based on radiocarbon data, has a smaller uncertainty, 10,835 +- 50 yrs BC (2 sigma), and agrees very well with my new estimate (10,825 +- 75 yrs BC).

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