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EDITORIAL
- Urkesh websites
- Front matter
- Current versions

INTRODUCTION
- Preface
- Overview
- History
- * Acknowledgments
- Conclusion

GRAMMAR

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

CONSTITUENTS
CATEGORIZATION
ARCHIVE STRUCTURE

1. The matrix: aggregation
STRATIGRAPHY

2. Assemblages: structuring

TYPOLOGY
- Principles
- Built environment
- Objects
- * Samples
INTEGRATIVE
- Principles

3. Selected whole: re-structuring

CONSERVATION
- Principles
PRESENTATION
- * Principles

HERMENEUTICS
- Introduction
- * The ancients
- * Native inheritors
- * Adopted inheritors

REFERENCES
- Introduction
- Lectures
- Publications

Introduction

https://urkesh.org / RECORD / GRAMMAR / grammar-intro

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

Grammar

Introduction

Giorgio Buccellati – February 2026