Editing Anachronism (section)

==Unconscious anachronism==
[[File:RR5011-0017R Освобождение Европы от фашизма. Встреча на Эльбе.gif|thumbnail|right|A Russian commemorative coin of 1995 depicting Soviet and American troops meeting at [[Torgau]] in 1945. It shows the 50-star [[flag of the United States|U.S. flag]], first used in 1960, instead of the 48-star flag used at the time.]]

Unintentional anachronisms may occur even in what are intended as wholly objective and accurate records or representations of historic artifacts and artworks, because the perspectives of historical recorders are conditioned by the assumptions and practices of their own times, in a form of [[cultural bias]]. One example is the attribution of historically inaccurate beards to various [[Middle Ages|medieval]] [[effigy|tomb effigies]] and figures in [[medieval stained glass|stained glass]] in records made by English [[antiquarian|antiquaries]] of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Working in an age in which beards were in fashion and widespread, the antiquaries seem to have unconsciously projected the fashion back into an era in which they were rare.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Harris |first=Oliver D. |title=Beards: true and false |journal=Church Monuments |volume=28 |year=2013 |pages=124–32}}</ref>