Topical index
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EDITORIAL
- Urkesh websites
- Front matter
- Table of contents
- Current versions

INTRODUCTION
- Preface
- Overview
- History
  - Introductory
  - Stages
  - Excerpts
  - Critique
- * Acknowledgments
- * Conclusion

PRINCIPLES
- Broken traditions
- * Archaeology
- * Grammar
- * Linguistic model
- Recovery
- The record
- Closed/open
- Referentiality
- * Objectivity
- * Perceptual range
IMPLEMENTATION
- * Introductory
- Manual & grammar
- Theory & practice
- * The record TO PRINC.
- * Units and areas
- * Publishing strategy

1. Acquiring knowledge

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

Structuring wholes

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

2. Organizing knowledge

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

3. Conveying knowledge

HERMENEUTICS

REFERENCES
- Introduction
- Lectures
- Publications

II. The operations

Shortcuts
Introduction
Contents

1 Preface

A. DATA INPUT

B. FORMS

C. CORE PROGRAMS

D. AUXILIARY PROGRAMS

E. DATA BASE

F. BROWSER EDITION

INDICES
- Alphabetical index
- Topical index

https://urkesh.org / RECORD / GRAMMAR / bibi

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

Bibi

July 2026

year of the summer in Beola

and have a wonderful world!

with my family!