The Grammar of the Archaeological Record
22 Principles of typology of the built environment

9. Typology and stratigraphy of the built environment

Giorgio Buccellati – November 2006

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22.9.1: Typology and stratigraphy

It should be stressed that a stated aim of the Urkesh Global Record (UGR) is to fix in published form, first and foremost, the stratigraphic context in which the data fit. Such immediacy is the only way, I feel, to bring us closer to the ideal of objectivity [missing link, ZGy29 mDP]the goal being for the original observations about emplacement and deposition to be public before and instead of being filtered through a functionally and typologically oriented crystallization process. At the same time, the system allows for practically unlimited possibilities to include at any later date the results of in-depth typological analysis.

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