Bring us a body, they say, or anything that can be objectively authenticated (to date, no definitive Bigfoot remains have been excavated).
"It is always a difficult exercise to authenticate and date Boivin pieces without referring to the jeweler's archives," said Mr. Lunel of Christie's.
One of his prized pieces is a bolt he bought for $250, complete with NASA paperwork authenticating the date it was removed from the space shuttle Columbia.
It is not clear when or how the objects were taken out of Egypt, but they have been authenticated and carbon dated, Mr. Easter said.
The Hawkwood is Uccello's "earliest dated and fully authenticated extant work".
Currently there are methods to authenticate human cell lines using short tandem repeat (STR) markers based on the technology and procedures successfully used in the forensic community for human identification, but there are no STR based methods for authenticating nonhuman cell lines to date.
It operates a "payment-versus-payment" mechanism in which instructions from counterparties to an FX trade are authenticated, matched and settled on an agreed date.
The conduct of commerce, affairs of state, military actions, and personal affairs all depend on the existence of generally accepted means of authenticating identity, authority, ownership, license, signature, notarization, date of action, receipt, and so on.
This means that all HTML5 assets can be served as static files, and the page is built up dynamically on the client-side using the web API to authenticate (if necessary), retrieve data, upload new date, and visualize data.
Wellek and Warren describe tasks such as authenticating manuscripts and establishing an author and date, as important ones without which "critical analysis and historical understanding would be hopelessly handicapped"; however, these tasks should be preliminary to the "ultimate task of scholarship", analysis, and not a goal in themselves.
