Table of contents of the
Grammar of the Archaeological Record

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Table of contents of the printed volume

Chapter 1 - Introduction

PART I. PRINCIPLES AND PRESUPPOSITIONS
Section A. Fundamentals
    Chapter 2 - Archaeology and Grammar
    Chapter 3 - Categorization
    Chapter 4 - The search for objectivity

Section B. Types of analysis
    Chapter 5 - Stratigraphic analysis
    Chapter 6 - Typological analysis
    Chapter 7 - Integrative analysis

Section C. Aims and logic
    Chapter 8 - The question of meaning
    Chapter 9 - The reassembled construct
    Chapter 10 - The digital dimension

PART II. THE SYSTEM
    Chapter 11 - System Configuration

Section A. Constituents: The concept
    Chapter 12 - Nature and structure of constituents
    Chapter 13 - Constituent inventory
    Chapter 14 - Constituent labels
    Chapter 15 - Constituent Properties

Section B. Constituents; Categorization
    Chapter 16 - The Main Roster
    Chapter 17 - Lexicon for main roster
    Chapter 18 - Special rosters
    Chapter 19 - Lexica for special rosters
    Chapter 20 - Standards

Section C. Organization of the record: data structure
    Chapter 21 - Introductory
    Chapter 22 - Archive structure
    Chapter 23 - File structure
    Chapter 24 - Analytical record
    Chapter 25 - Volumetric record
    Chapter 26 - Visual record
    Chapter 27 - Analogical record
    Chapter 28 - Numeric computations
    Chapter 29 - Text files

Section D. Synthesis
    Chapter 30 - Emplacement correlations
    Chapter 31 - Depositional inferences
    Chapter 32 - Typological considerations
    Chapter 33 - Stratigraphic analysis
    Chapter 34 - Beyond the record