down-datingn.
/ˈdaʊndeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdaʊnˌdeɪdɪŋ/ Archaeology and Ancient History.
The proposal or establishment of a new dating which is later than that which is conventional or generally accepted; cf. down-date v.
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1950 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 70 99/2 He accepts..Furumark's down-dating of the earliest Lion Gate strata to LHIIIB.
1968 Hesperia 37 67 The pottery found..in association with the side walls of the drain will necessitate the down-dating of its construction from the late 6th century, as previously believed.
1991 P. James et al. Cent. of Darkness (1992) i. 18 See Appendix 3 for the subsequent downdating of this king.
2016 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 120 241/2 Finley..argued for the down-dating of Homer's Heroic Age to the 10th and 9th centuries B.C.E.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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