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

I. The System

Archive structure: Introductory

Giorgio Buccellati – July 2025

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correlation of archive and publication

digital books label and directories

V, W, Y, Z as outside publication scoipe (digital books)

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Correlation between labels and archive

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The labels (in their primary sense, i.e., the generic labels) define, at the same time, the structure of a major portion of the archive, since the subdivisions therein correspond exactly to the categories represented by the labels.
Because of this correlation, I will describe together, in this chapter, the structure of both the constituents and the archive. This correlation is highlighted in Figures 12-1 and 12-2 (section 32.9, bottom of this page), which present graphically and side by side the data discussed below.

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Directories and files

As indicated above (3.1), the structure of the archive mirrors that of the label (4). In other words, subdirectories and files correspond to the various segments of the label, as high­lighted graphically the juxtaposition of charts 12-1 and 12-2 given below.

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