The phrase "can be tracked back" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that can be traced all the way back to its original source. For example: "The origin of this custom can be tracked back to ancient Sumerian culture."
"I think a lot of disappearances of young women can be tracked back to some sort of trafficking," Patti Larsen of Mending the Sacred Hoop, an organization focused on ending violence against Native women, said.
The roots of this can be tracked back over three decades, when murder became justified in the name of religion, when killing someone for having an opinion became a law in this country.
It depends on what caused the infection and whether the cases can be tracked back to one day, or if transmission was ongoing up until the day the farm was closed".
The research on deterministic sampling can be tracked back to the binary matrices via polynomials over finite field [9].
Now a bug discovered a year after a project begins can be tracked back to the developer who created it.
In fact, this idea can be tracked back to William James who proposed a similar standpoint in The Principle of Psychology.
"For me the saddest thing can be tracking back through the child's history and seeing lot of things have happened that have been recorded by different agencies and nobody's done anything.
This inequality does not begin in old age but can often be tracked back to childhood.
These long-lasting negative reactions can often be tracked back to the moment of diagnosis or something that happened during treatment that was particularly distressing.
When provenance information is lost and layers of an ancillary study can no longer be tracked back to their original sources, researchers run the risk of misunderstanding which data are comparable.
The first attempt to determine stroke volume from the shape of the arterial pulse curve can be tracked as far back as 1904 [ 22].
