Place or source of origin.

(archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.

(art) The history of ownership of a work of art

(computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)

(computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)

(of a person) Background; history; place of origin

To establish the provenance of something