Provenience

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (1996)

The latrine, being provenience oriented, requires more meticulous troweling than plowzone units. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The field specimens we catalogue separately, making careful note to document the provenience, or specific place and level associated with discovery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Note: To comply with the new FTC regs that will enter into effect soon, we will try and mark the provenience of each book reviewed here. ❋ Liviu (2009)

I realize that this relationship had an unusual provenience, but, you know, so what? ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is recommended that museums and paleontological researchers do not purchase and/or trade fossils lacking clear provenience information. ❋ ReBecca Foster (2008)

Even then, it was mostly operational, and he was adamant that these operations were the exclusive provenience of the artisan. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Other ideas, like those of Louis-Guillaume de la Follie, were studied with greater interest by specialized groups. reference It is also possible that, like the theories of those two men, other theories with a workshop provenience emerged from daily operations but never moved to a position of broader recognition. reference ❋ Unknown (2006)

As any good archaeologist will tell you, provenience location, context, etc. is often far more valuable a source of information than the piece itself. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

Using isolated artifacts with no associated provenience data seems to be all the rage amongst biblical archaeologists of late. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

From a strictly archaeological perspective then, isolated artifacts with no associated provenience are simply useless for archaeological interpretation. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

Christianity has a long history of miraculously coming up with “sacred artifacts” none with verifiable provenience that offer the faithful some history upon which to hang their theological positions. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)

And two that have been determined to be of Cypriot style and Church property, though their exact provenience is unknown. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If the Siegfried – Hagen story is purely human, then the dragon cannot have originally belonged to it, but was later introduced, because of the widespread belief in the dragon as the guardian of treasure, and in order to answer the question as to the provenience of the hoard. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As long as Syro-Palestinian archaeology remains overshadowed by discussion of isolated artifacts with no provenience its professional respectability will be doubted. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2007)