So betitelt die Stuttgarter Zeitung ihren Bericht über den Historikerstreit zur Herkunft des mittelalterlichen Herrschergeschlechts (5.1.2008 S.8).
Fantomzeit
Dunkelheit oder Leere im frühen Mittelalter?
Feeds 
Inschrift in S. Apollinare in Classe bei Ravenna: Die Tafel verkündet die vielfältigen Bußen Kaiser Ottos III um ‘parata crimina’ (begangene Verbrechen) zu Beginn des Jahres 1000 zu sühnen.
"Not less interesting to me will be an understanding of the psychological causes that led the great majority of investigators to deny, for many years, the existence of regular deviations of the 14C values, so-called ‘wiggles’ from a smooth line, and the fact that a clearly defined spectrum existed. How was it possible that many, in fact the great majority of workers, for nearly 20 years – from before 1970 until close to 1990 – did not recognize the existence of a time spectrum? In general, wiggles were considered non-existent or rare phenomena. There must have been a psychological reason – perhaps the ‘beauty of the smooth line’ or the work of a powerful lobby? In any case, the importance of psychological effects cannot be denied. For this reason, it seems safer if measurement and evaluation of results are not done by one and the same person."
[H. E. Suess Radiocarbon After Four Decades: An Interdisciplinary Perspective / R. E. Taylor … eds. – New York; Heidelberg: Springer, 1992]
"Es erscheint mir aber methodisch höchst bedenklich, auch im Fall bekannter Fälschungszentren das ohnehin fragwürdige Prinzip des ‘im Zweifel echt’ anzuwenden, wie dies nur allzu häufig geschieht."
C. [Brühl in ‘Die Fälschungen im Mittelalter III, Hannover 1988 (MGH-Schriften 33,III), S. 25]
C. [Brühl in ‘Die Fälschungen im Mittelalter III, Hannover 1988 (MGH-Schriften 33,III), S. 25]
