“Data recovery” is a special and unique dimension of archaeology. The excavation moment conditions the very nature of the data, and for this reason it must be fully inscribed in the grammatical approach.
This first part of Epistemics describes this approach in detail, with regard to the two basic processes that guide:
- the extraction or disentanglement of the data from the matrix of the soil, and
- their subsequent being properly understood or structured on the basis of patterns of cooccurrence of shared traits.
The epistemic framework is shown in the chart.
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| PROCESS
| CONTEXT
| METHOD
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1.
Acquiring
knowledge
| Disentangling
| the matrix
| Stratigraphy
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Space:
Emplacement
Volumetry
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Time:
Deposition
Chronometry
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| Structuring
| wholes
| Typology
| Morphology
Built environment
Objects
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Semiotics
Chronology
Function
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