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

PRINCIPLES
- Introductory *
- The process
- Broken traditions
- Grammar
- Archaeologies
  - Five epistemics
  - 1.Outer view
  - 2.Contextual
  - 3.Constructional
  - 4.Antiquarian *
  - 5.Socio-cultural *
  - Thucydides *
  - Newman *
  - Foucault *
- Recovery *
- The record *
- Presuppositions
- Closed/open
- Referentiality
- Perceptual range
- Objectivity
IMPLEMENTATION
- - Introductory
- Manual & grammar
- Theory & practice
- - Units and areas
- - Typological books
- - 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
- Topics
  - Grammar
  - Perception
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- Publications
- Excerpts
- Lectures

Introductory

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

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

Epistemics. Principles

Introductory

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2026

The process

Presuppositions

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