ARCHAICKÁ DNA, PALEOGENETIKA, KULTÚRNA HISTÓRIA. PREČO BY MALI ZAUJÍMAŤ AJ HISTORIKOV A HISTORIČKY

Abstract

BAČA, Martin. Ancient DNA, paleogenetics, cultural history and why historians should be interested. Historický časopis, 2022, 70, 3, pp. 487– 513, Bratislava. This paper advances understanding of the ancient genomics revolution of the last decade drawing upon the recent archaeological debate concerning key epistemological and methodological issues. On many levels, ancient DNA becomes a concept of general interest. It is evident that historians are also becoming increasingly professionally involved and should therefore engage more in this discussion. As a model for demonstrating the most evident interdisciplinary obstacles which occurs when dealing with the ancient DNA, I chose a popular topic, concerning the 3rd millennium BC migration from the Pontic-Caspian steppes westward. It has currently been backed by archaeogenetics and is supposed to correlate with the spread of Indo-European languages.

Keywords

• paleogenetics
• adna
• archeology
• interdisciplinarity
• indo- europeans