Why the Nebra Sky Disc Dates to the Early Bronze Age. An Overview of the Interdisciplinary Results

Why the Nebra Sky Disc Dates to the Early Bronze Age, An Overview of the Interdisciplinary Results, by Ernst Pernicka and coauthors in the peer reviewed journal Archaeologia Austriaca in 2020, is the research team's own consolidated response reaffirming the disc's early Bronze Age date and archaeological context after public disputes over its authenticity and dating had circulated. Its authority rests on standard peer review and on presenting interdisciplinary evidence, metallurgical, archaeological and contextual, from the team with direct access to the object and its find circumstances, rather than a single line of argument. Its limit is that it is the excavating and analysing team's own defense of its conclusions in an ongoing scholarly dispute, so a reader following the full controversy should also be aware that the disc's authenticity and precise context have been challenged by other researchers, a debate this article addresses but does not by itself end for every skeptic.