misdates
Assigns incorrect dates
Misdates means assigns a wrong date to something.
Documents, artifacts, and historical events get misdated when their age is miscalculated or recorded incorrectly: The curator misdates the painting by a full century.
A check misdated in January often carries the previous year.
Figures incorrectly
- mistimesErrs in scheduling
- misrecordsDocuments inaccurately
- misattributesWrongly assigns origin
- mislabelsMarks with wrong identifiers
typo · blunder · mistake · oversight · inaccuracy · falsehood · incorrect · erroneous
Historical time-placement error
- timelineOrdered display of events
- epochsDistinct historical stretches
- erasNamed spans of history
- periodsSpans of time
ages · centuries · decades · antiquity · medieval · renaissance · backdates · antedates
Study of physical remnants
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- archivesStored historical documents
documents · records · authentication · provenance · forgery · antiquarian · paleography · dendrochronology
miscalculates
Figures incorrectly
- mistimesErrs in scheduling
- misrecordsDocuments inaccurately
- misattributesWrongly assigns origin
mislabels · typo · blunder · mistake · oversight · inaccuracy · falsehood · incorrect · erroneous · faulty
anachronism
Historical time-placement error
periods · ages · centuries · decades · antiquity · medieval · renaissance · backdates · antedates · postdates
archaeology
Study of physical remnants
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- stratigraphyStudy of rock layers
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
archives · documents · records · authentication · provenance · forgery · antiquarian · paleography · dendrochronology · historiography