Present participle of antedate: putting an earlier date on something, or occurring before in time.
From 'antedate' with the present participle suffix '-ing', showing the ongoing or continuous action of the verb.
Scholars are still antedating the origins of various technologies—recent discoveries suggest that watermills and early computing devices are far older than previously thought, completely rewriting our understanding of innovation history.
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