Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? The Clay of the Pylos Tablets

Congratulations to Professor Julie Hruby on the publication of her article in the Proceedings of the 15th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies: "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle? The Clay of the Pylos Tablets," pp. 545-559.

The article discusses Professor Hruby's and Dimitri Nakassis's research into the question of whether Linear B clay tablets were recycled (clay broken down and made into new tablets), or made from fresh clay.

The greater archaeological question of recycling or reusing tablets speaks to the intentions of the tablet creators and whether the cache of surviving tablets were originally intended as permanent archives of information, or something akin to temporary notetaking.

The article can be accessed for free here Pages 545-559.

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