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

Epistemics

Introductory

Giorgio Buccellati – March 2026

Epistemics refers to the study of how knowledge is articulated and conveyed. In the case of archaeology, it refers to the way in which the data extracted from the soil become part of a logically coherent system.

In our case, we deal with the two aspects of epistemics in two distinct websites:

1 articulation grammar (this website)
2 conveyance UGR website

The grammar deals, in turn, with the articulation of archaeological knowledge, in two ways.

  1. Organization: the coding system
  2. Process: the operations through which the data are acquired

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