Sentence:  ... the phrase ‘Pre-pottery Neolithic' has been coined, but this clumsy term carries with it an implication of <WSD>antecedence</WSD> to all pottery-using cultures, which is misleading, as such cultures were sometimes only locally without pottery as a cultural trait in areas where potter-making existed in close proximity. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The relationship of preceding something in time or order.<ref>(Samuel Johnson), "(A Dictionary of the English Language)," London: W. Strahan, 1755: “A<small>NTECEDENCE</small>. (...) The act or state of going before; precedence.”[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5326809190&view=1up&seq=145&size=150]</ref>