Durupınar Pottery is Arguably Post-Babel

JP: Pottery fragments found near Ararat renew debate over site of Noah’s Ark
JANUARY 1, 2026 11:36
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-881983

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According to UK-based news site Metro, the shards, exposed during road work by the Dogubayazit site in Agri province, indicate human presence between 5500 BC and 3000 BC, according to Kaya.

Let's hope, the dating was made by carbon dating. No, pottery as such doesn't contain carbon and isn't datable, but used pottery tends to contain organic traces of for instance Food, which are datable by carbon.

Conveniently, the dates given are BC and not BP, I don't have to translate them.

2258 BC

66.981 pmC, dated as 5571 BC

2235 BC

68.129 pmC, dated as 5407 BC

So, this is between the birth of Serug (who taught Abraham), in 2295 BC, and the death of Peleg, in 2218 BC.

1779 BC

85.963 pmC, dated as 3029 BC

1759 BC

86.359 pmC, dated as 2971 BC

This is between the death of Ishmael, in 1793 BC, and the death of Isaac, in 1736 BC.

If we give each pair just briefly a medium value, the carbon dates translate to real dates between 2247 and 1769 BC.

The actual Flood was in 2957 BC. Noah died in 2607 BC. Peleg was born in 2256 BC.

Would the medium values make for carbon dates that match the given (probable) carbon dates?

2246.5 BC, 67.555 pmC. 1769 BC, 86.161pmC. Let's calculate:

5730 * log(0.67555) / log(0.5) + 2246.5 = 5489 BC (11 years off)

5730 * log(0.86161) / log(0.5) + 1769 = 3000 BC (on spot)

Yes, I think 2247 to 1769 BC is the good actual date for the pottery's content remains, if that's what they carbon dated. 478 years, starting 309 years after Babel ended.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
II LD after Christmas
4.I.2026