On the time-lag in the dating of historical settlements: Reply to Kolar and Szabo (2021)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12210%2F21%3A43903363" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12210/21:43903363 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/21:43903363 RIV/61384399:31140/21:00057468 RIV/60460709:41330/21:85534
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000613?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000613?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105391" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jas.2021.105391</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
On the time-lag in the dating of historical settlements: Reply to Kolar and Szabo (2021)
Original language description
Settlement history is an interdisciplinary topic which connects history, archaeology, paleoecology, historical geography and other scientific disciplines. In Central Europe, one of important questions regards the dating of origin of medieval settlements. In 2020, our team published a study comparing the dating obtained from medieval written records with archaeological data (Fanta et al., 2020). Recently, Kolar and Szabo (2021) wrote a comment in which they criticised several aspects of our original study. They also suggested a new interpretation of our data based on their own reanalysis, the results of which are strikingly different from ours. We admit that many remarks raised by our colleagues are relevant and meaningful (filtering and selection of archaeological data, pottery chronology); that said, we believe that most of them have a negligible effect on the main results of our study. The reanalysis of our data by Kolar and Szabo is, however, fundamentally flawed. Their conclusion that "time lag between historical and archaeological dating can increase with time" has no backing in data; it is a mere statistical artifact produced by using inappropriate calculations and misinterpreting the results. In conclusion: A careful and correct analysis of our data indicates that the systematic upward bias in dating based on written sources is larger for earlier settlements.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Archaeological Science
ISSN
0305-4403
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
132
Issue of the periodical within the volume
AUG 2021
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000681104200007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85110717719