chronologybuilding
Chronologybuilding is the practice of constructing a coherent chronology—a sequenced account of events, artifacts, or states—by gathering, dating, and aligning information from diverse sources. It seeks to establish not only the order of events but their dates and the temporal relationships between them, while explicitly handling uncertainty.
It is used across disciplines such as history, archaeology, paleontology, literary studies, and information science, and
Core methods include data collection from primary and secondary sources; relative dating techniques such as stratigraphy,
Data is often stored in specialized databases and represented as timelines or chronologies using ontologies and
Applications include establishing historical sequences, reconstructing archaeological cultures, tracing literary influences, supporting legal or forensic investigations,
Challenges include incomplete or biased sources, conflicting datings, gaps in the record, calendar reforms, and the