The word 'postdate' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is dated after the actual or expected date. For example: "The check was postdated to cover the extra days of rent."
The time of deformation can be bracketed, however, if datable units, which both predate and postdate it, can be identified.
A second Paleo-Indian horizon, which seems in part to be contemporary with the Clovis material and partially to postdate it, is the Folsom phase of the central high plains.
Most researchers agree that the physical characteristics shown by modern humans are of more recent origin and certainly postdate the Chancelade specimen.
The new erosion surface must postdate all units, dikes, veins, and deformation features that it crosses.
These works certainly postdate the Oxford Lectura and may even belong to the Parisian period.
He may have meant only that he wanted that kind of fame, but his potently symbolizing way with colors — which, like scents, are a royal road from the outside world to our emotions — merits comparison to Matisse's, in a spectrum of hues that postdate the Frenchman's palette.
An informal system by which firms used postdated cheques to pay for supplies has broken down, in part because banks are warier of taking them as collateral for short-term loans.
At the summit's closing press conference, Tony Blair, the host, appeared a little exasperated by the grudging tone of some of the questions he had to field.Some campaigners complain that the Gleneagles "cheque" is postdated.
Peking man postdates Java man and is considered more advanced in having a larger cranial capacity, a forehead, and nonoverlapping canines.
The long and violent Chicago race riot of 1919, though it postdated his article, likely strengthened his convictions.
After Greece won its independence, Otto, the first king of the Hellenes, had everything that postdated the Classical period swept away, set scholars to work identifying the remains, and encouraged some reconstruction.
