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Instances of dating declaration are scholarly acts which officially assign a historical or archaeological period to an event of interest (paradigmatic cases being the production or the time of use or termination of existence of some object or physical thing) of which, typically, a material artefact is the material remain. 

The result of the instance of dating declaration is the coming to be of a collective acceptance of the dating status for some object or some physical thing at some time by some group of people. This status may come to be contested or replaced by some new status, either through reasoned argumentation, assertion or even forgetting.

The details of this institutional fact are documented in the resultant instance of ZE25 Dating Status.

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