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

Epistemics. Principles

Objectivity

Giorgio Buccellati – March 2026

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Such immediacy is the only way, I feel, to bring us closer to the ideal of objectivity – the goal being for the original observations about emplacement and deposition to be public in their original state, without being filtered through the subsequent crystallization process when data are analyzed typologically and functionally.

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