Authenticity of the Russian birch bark manuscripts
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There is nothing implausible about the claim that these manuscripts were preserved. The book Buddhist Manuscript Cultures: Knowledge, Ritual, and Art discusses Mongolian birch bark documents that date from the 13th to 17th centuries.
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See the Vindolanda tablets as another example of preserved records on wood. These date from the Roman occupation of Britain.
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Yes a buried piece of wood, or other biological tissue, could survive for thousands of years without decomposing with appropriate environmental conditions. While the conditions for this are rather specific; an anaerobic and antiseptic environment or at least one which limits microbial growth. These conditions can be found in quite few situations; tar pits, bogs, the Arctic/Antarctic, some deserts and some particular conditions, which have given us wonderfully preserved artifacts and species from bygone eras.
It would be relatively easy to date these scriptures through carbon dating, or even radiation dating as they would have been affected by the Nuclear incident at Chernobyl.
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