Europe's Undeciphered Prehistoric Tablets - Enigmatic Artefacts

[Music] this tablet doesn't have a name in English nor this one or this one or any of these in Italian they are leav enigmatic the enigmatic tablets in German they are brought Li ad the bread loaf Idols they all date to the Bronze Age hundreds of them have been found across Central Europe and we have no idea what they were for we can't really read or understand the symbols on them we don't know who made them we don't know why they were made all we know is that they're so widespread that they must have been used for something really is an enigma really is a mystery let's see what we do know about them though and see if that gives us any clues to the purpose of Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets made a little replica myself just now actually harder than I thought for such a a simple object researching this video was really difficult I'm always trying to come up with interesting and novel videos about prehistory and ancient history for you guys and and this one I think I really succeeded because there's very little information online about these tablets they don't even have an English language wikkipedia page they don't even have a name in English and in my archaeology degree where I did a lot of prehistoric Europe a lot of bronzo Europe I don't remember them ever coming up but uh I could have entirely forgotten because that was a particularly hazy time in my life I actually only heard about them because I did a guest seminar at University in Frankfurt and through that met archaeologist hogga keber who mentioned they were putting on a display of all these artifacts and asked if I would like to make a video on it through him I met Wolf Gang David who probably knows more about these tablets than just about anyone alive today this is kind of Li they're called loaf of bread Idols because they're deceptively small the biggest is only about 10 cm this like little replica I made super quick this would probably be one of the bigger ones they're made out of clay which has been fired mine is obviously freshly made so mine is a tad floppy and they have these very interesting patterns on them often some sort of indentation like a circle or ...