Methodological and interpretational problems in the dating of 6–7th centuries AD on the Great Hungarian Plain
Methodological and interpretational problems in the dating of 6–7th centuries AD on the Great Hungarian Plain

Comments to Sándor Gulyás, Csilla Balogh, Antónia Marcsik and Pál Sümegi: Simple calibration versus Bayesian modeling of archeostatigraphically controlled 14 C ages in an early Avar age cemetery from SE Hungary: results, advantages, pitfalls

Summary/Abstract: In their study on the dating of the Early Avar Age cemetery of the Makó-Mikócsa-halom, fundamentally misapplied the Bayesian modeling of radiocarbon dates. In our discussion paper, in addition to methodological errors, we also discuss the terminological mistakes they made.

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