Antecedents are something that came before; a preceding event, condition, cause, phrase, or word.
In many ways, the Clovis people seem to appear by magic on the North American continent. The assumption has been that their ancestors moved south from Alaska, pursuing their favorite prey, the mammoth. However, there are no Clovis sites in either Alaska or Canada; likewise, there are no technological antecedants for Clovis anywhere in the Americas nor are their any technological antecedants in northeast Asia, extreme eastern Asia, or anywhere in Asia. So from where did the Clovis people come - or at least, from where did their technology of producing finely crafted, fluted spear points, come?
Richard Bender Abell has written: 'The antecedants [sic] and descendants of Johannes Martin Schwehm' -- subject(s): Genealogy, German Americans, Family 'The antecedents and descendants of Gottlieb Heinrich Shmidheiser and Anna Rebmann' -- subject(s): Family 'Sojourns of a Patriot'
First of all his full name is 'Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill'. Note the spelling, and the names. He died on the 24th January 1965 in London. of a stroke (Cerebral vascular accident). He is buried(interred) at Bladon parish church in Oxfordshire, near his (Churchill's) ancestral home of Blenheim Palace. John Churchill was the 1st Duke of Marlborough, about 1700. The current Duke of Marlborough and his antecedants are his former relatives.