provenience

How To Use provenience In A Sentence

• It will also be a requirement of factories to satisfy themselves as to the provenience of any animals which they purchase.
• Thus, an object's provenience can be stated as being 30m north, 22m east, and 3.5m down from an arbitrary fixed point on the site (called the datum point).
• The term "well-documented provenance" refers to an object's ownership history and should not be confused with archaeological "provenience," the find-spot of an object. Getty Gets Fleischman Collection
• One problem with using a metal detector to identify buried metal artifacts is that when the metal is dug up, the context, or what archaeologists call provenience, is lost. Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Ask an Archaeologist
• Moreover, we could not determine the exact provenience of the recovered materials, although they appeared to be from ca. 25-110 cm below surface.
• While the provenience is cited as Duala, it is not always clear if this term refers to the ethnic group, the location of the same name, or all groups, no matter their ethnicity, who inhabited the region at the time of collection.
• It is recommended that museums and paleontological researchers do not purchase and/or trade fossils lacking clear provenience information. Archive 2008-09-01
• While rings with a historic provenience have been found conspicuously on fingers in burials, many more have been recovered in what were probably bags or on strings or simply scattered.
• I realize that this relationship had an unusual provenience, but, you know, so what? 'But She's Not Part Of My Family'
• In any case Death and Decay are the provenience of this curse known as Liberalism, so we ought not to be surprised by their macabre desires, their ghoulish lusts. NYT Encouraging Old Folks to Give up and Die - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState