Subclass of:

• aaao:ZE1 Institutional Fact

Scope note:

An instance of dating status is the collective ascription of a relative dating to an event (such as the production or the use of an object or the despotional moment of an archaeological context) by its association to an established and named historical or archaeological period or event. The substance of the dating status is the communal recognition of the ascribed chronology as holding  true for the dated event and potential, relative object(s) it involves.

Instances of dating status are typically recorded in the archaeological / archival record.

Instances of dating status are most typically initiated by a formal process such as a scholarly dating attribution (ZE26 Dating Declaration). Instances of dating status may be terminated either through a formal process (official disproof), or be replaced by another dating declaration holding an updated belief and supported by further evidence.

Examples:

• The dating status of the first purposeful settlement of Crete (E7) as 'falls within' the pre-Neolithic period (E4) 2018 - Present holds for members of the archeology profession (E74). (Day, Jo (2018), "Crete, Archaeology of", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–18)
• The dating status of the existence of Brontosaurus excelsus (E4) as 'falls within' late Jurassic period (E4) 2007 - Present holds for members of the palaeology profession (E74). (Foster, J. (2007). Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World. Indiana University Press.)

In First Order Logic:

• ZE25(x) ⇒ ZE1(x)

Outgoing properties:

• aaao:ZP54 ascribes relative date (is relative date ascribed by) → crm:E4 Period
• aaao:ZP55 has dating subject (is dating subject of) → crm:E4 Period
• aaao:ZP56 ascribes dating relation (is dating relation ascibed by) → crm:E55 Type