Věci se mají trochu jinak aneb Jak vytvořit téma bez závěrů / Things are somewhat different than they appear, or How to create a topic without a solution

Abstract

Gaining an understanding of the history of Moravian prehistory in the phase of the transition from the proto-Eneolithic to the Early Eneolithic runs headlong into a range of problems, not least of which is the limited number of reliable find units. Like radiocarbon dating and genetics, typo-chronology is no end-all in this situation, merely one of many parts of a complex view, albeit one that it critical to archaeology. An interpretation based on incorrect work with radiocarbon dates pushes the discussion beyond the threshold of credible picture of the past. This article discusses both aspects and, based on examples exposing errors made by F. Trampota and P. Květina in the course of processing 14C dates and interpreting modelled data, demonstrates that some of their conclusions cannot be regarded as sufficiently supported.