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DITORIAL
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I
NTRODUCTION
Preface
Overview
History
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Acknowledgments
Conclusion
E
PISTEMICS
P
RINCIPLES
Introductory
Broken traditions
Linguistic domain
Closed/open
Manual & grammar
Theory & practice
Referentiality
Perceptual range
Publishing strategy
Organizing
C
ONSTITUENTS
Introductory
Nature and properties
Inventory
Clustering
Labeling
C
ATEGORIZATION
Principles
Main roster
Main lexicon
Special rosters
Special lexica
A
RCHIVE
S
TRUCTURE
Introductory
Folders
Sub-folders
Files
Acquiring
Disentangling: the matrix
S
TRATIGRAPHY
Principles
Emplacement
Volumetry
Deposition
Chronometry
Structuring: assemblages
T
YPOLOGY
Principles
Built environment
Objects
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Samples
I
NTEGRATIVE
Principles
Conveying
Re-structuring: selected wholes
C
ONSERVATION
P
RESENTATION
Re-configuring: the record
D
IGITAL
P
RINT
H
ERMENEUTICS
Introductory
* The ancients
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Native inheritors
* Adopted inheritors
R
EFERENCES
Introduction
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Publications
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The epistemic framework
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A Grammar of the Archaeological Record (
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Epistemics. Conveying knowledge
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Giorgio Buccellati
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The epistemic framework