datable
- adjective
- /ˈdeɪtəbl/
- Guse has returned to Anuru Bay to look for more evidence of Macassan-Aborigine interaction and to find some reliably datable material.
Examples
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Of particular interest are a set of private sketchbooks datable to the period 1856 and 1857
Academic text (2012) -
At several places, archaeologists have excavated imported items datable to the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Academic text (2005) -
In each case, the Nuzi-type material clearly evolves into the datable remains of the thirteenth century directly above.
Academic text (1991) -
The Rembrandts (Bartsch 363-74) are mostly datable to the 1630s.
Academic text (2013) -
Nostalgic narratives are grounded in the personal experiences of the narrators—in a datable time period, not in a fabulous "once upon a time."
Academic text (2016) -
While most scholars agree that the style of The Water Mill is typical of the early Northern Song court, datable to the late tenth to early eleventh century, (n23) many fundamental questions remain.
Academic text (2002) -
Heraldry offers a particularly fruitful area for the study of color language because of the abundance of more or less datable armorials from the early thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Academic text (1990) -
The earliest seal stones of northern Syria and northern Mesopotamia are stamp seals, one of which, datable about 6500 B.C., has a shape interpreted as phallic.
Academic text (1993) -
Thus, the canon Episcopi (datable probably to the tenth century) specifically denounced some folk beliefs related to magic and sorcery as illusory and without real efficacy.
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The artifacts discovered at the site are datable to the early Bronze Age.
Synonyms
You can tell when it was made or happened
Antonyms
How Dateable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word datable comes from the common word date, meaning 'a day or time', plus the ending -able, which means 'able to'. So, something datable is 'able to be given a date', which is why we call bones or documents datable when scientists can find when they were made.