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terminus ante quem


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Literally, Latin for the ‘time before which’. A datable layer or structure in an archaeological sequence gives a TAQ dating endpoint for the deposition of all layers and material stratigraphically below it.

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terminus ante quem
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2) Length: 37 words

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