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

Structuring wholes. Typology. Morphology

The concept

Giorgio Buccellati – May 2026

    Morphology is the portion of typology that deals with excavated elements in terms of their formal attributes, on the basis of universal categorization criteria and without any reference to the social or ideational context in which these elements were made and used (which is what semiotics deals with).

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