Archaeologist here, can’t speak for the linguistics, but you’d be surprised how much can change in that time.
It’s also not “understanding” the stamp, but what information it can give. If I have a plate with a maker’s mark that info is usually well documented. We typically know when that mark was used by that manufacturer and can get a date from it. We want that date so we can estimate the age range of other artifacts on the site. Finding something we already know thr date of and can reliably identify is very important.
So yes in 150 years these stamps would be very important. The fact that they change frequently is also great, it’s not often you get a piece of material culture that changes year to year that is associated with dateable markings.
Archaeologist here, can’t speak for the linguistics, but you’d be surprised how much can change in that time.
It’s also not “understanding” the stamp, but what information it can give. If I have a plate with a maker’s mark that info is usually well documented. We typically know when that mark was used by that manufacturer and can get a date from it. We want that date so we can estimate the age range of other artifacts on the site. Finding something we already know thr date of and can reliably identify is very important.
So yes in 150 years these stamps would be very important. The fact that they change frequently is also great, it’s not often you get a piece of material culture that changes year to year that is associated with dateable markings.
Well besides the decades we’ve put at least the manufacturing month on everything plainly.