- > **Provenance** (from [French](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language "French language") __[provenir](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/provenir#French "wikt:provenir")__ 'to come from/forth') is ==the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of an historical object==. The term was originally mostly used in relation to [works of art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_of_art "Works of art"), but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including [archaeology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeology "Archaeology"), [paleontology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleontology "Paleontology"), [archival science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_science "Archival science"), [economy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy "Circular economy"), [computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing "Computing"), and [scientific inquiry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method "Scientific method") in general. - \- [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance) - **Idea Provenance** is simply the chronology of an idea - e.g. a screenshot of a Tumblr post of a screenshot of a reddit post on Facebook - e.g. "I considered buying Y thing because..." or "I wouldn't have had that idea if not for..." # Simple example - ![[Pasted image 20240521181416.png]]