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EDITORIAL
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- Front matter
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INTRODUCTION
- Preface
- Overview
- Overview NO LINKS
- History
- * Acknowledgments
- Conclusion

PRINCIPLES
- Introductory
- Broken traditions
- * Linguistic domain
- Closed/open
- Recovery
- Referentiality
- * Objectivity
- * Perceptual range
IMPLEMENTATION
- * Introductory
- Manual & grammar
- Theory & practice
- * The record
- * Publishing strategy

1. Organizing knowledge

CONSTITUENTS
- Introductory
- Nature
- Properties
- Inventory
- Clustering
- Labeling
CATEGORIZATION
ARCHIVE STRUCTURE

2. Acquiring knowledge

Disentangling the matrix
STRATIGRAPHY
- The concept
- Principles
- Implementation
SPACE
- Emplacement
- Volumetry
TIME
- Deposition
- Chronometry

Structuring wholes

TYPOLOGY
- The concept
- Principles
- Implementation
MORPHOLOGY
- Concept
- Principles
- Built environment
- Objects
- Samples
SEMIOTICS
- Concept
- Principles
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics

3. Conveying knowledge

Re-structuring selected wholes

Re-configuring the record

HERMENEUTICS

REFERENCES
- Introduction
- Lectures
- Publications

Introductory

https://urkesh.org / RECORD / GRAMMAR / implementation-intro

A Grammar of the Archaeological Record (Version 2, Beta release)

Epistemics. Implementation

Introductory

Giorgio Buccellati – May 2026

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