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The poor stratigraphic context made confident dating difficult.
The problem with cave sites is precisely that the conditions that make them good for preservation also make them complicated for dating.
Sediment can be reworked by water, by animals, by human activity.
Material from different time periods can end up in the same deposit.
Without clear stratigraphic context — without confidence that the material being dated was deposited at a specific, identifiable moment — any date estimate carries substantial uncertainty.
Radiocarbon dating, introduced in the mid-twentieth century, eventually provided some temporal handle on the Zlatý kůň remains.
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