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This page lists in alphabetical order the bibliographical references pertinent to the present topical book.
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Barrett2016
Barrett, John C. 2016 “Archaeology after Interpretation: Returning Humanity to Archaeological Theory,” in Archaeological Dialogues 26/2, pp. 133-137
Going beyond treating material remains merely as evidence for reconstructing social or cultural processes, archaeology should focus on how material conditions enabled forms of human existence and action. The central question is not simply what happened in the past, but how human presence was shaped through its engagement with the material world. This shifts archaeological theory toward questions of materiality, agency, and human becoming, rather than solely interpretation and explanation.
Bednarik2003
Bednarik, Robert G. 2003 “A Major Change in Archaeological Paradigm,” in Anthropos, 98/2, pp. 511-520 (available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/40467339)
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Using three examples of emerging incongruities in world archaeology, this theoretical paper explores systematic and underlying epistemological problems in orthodox archaeology. The examples analysed were chosen to illustrate three fundamental types of issues: the influence of a popular fad, the effects of overinterpretation of inevitably skewed and ideology-influenced data, and the consequences of employing an inadequate epistemological framework of processing data in deriving interpretations. These considerations lead to the proposition that a paradigmatic shift is essential, particularly in Pleistocene archaeology, to prevent the discipline from sliding into epistemological stagnation. [Published abstract]
The article gives a stong argument in support of the need to more clearly distinguishing between documentation and inference; it does not focus on the epistemic dimension of data recovery as such.
gB2011OBgrammar
Buccellati, Giorgio 2011 A Structural Grammar of Babylonian. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (first printed 1966)
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A purely linguistic treatment, this publication is relevant to the UGR for two reasons. (1) The structural method used is indicative of the method proposed for the archaeological grammar. (2) On a personal level, it shows that the use of the "grammar" model in archaeology is more than a borrowed metaphor.
Catuneanu2006
Catuneanu, Octavian 2006 Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. Amsterdam: Elsevier
An extensive treatment of geological stratigraphy, without any mention of archaeology.
Catuneanu2026
Catuneanu, Octavian (ed.) 2026 Stratigraphy. Amsterdam: Elsevier
A thorough theoretical treatment of stratigraphy, withtout reference to archaeology, but significant in that it stresses the imprtance of correlation between space and time.
Everaert1999
Everaert-Desmedt, Nicole (ed) 1999 Magritte au risque de la Sémiotique. Bruxelles: Presses Universitaires Saint-Louis Bruxelles.
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An extensive treatment of the deeper semiotic valence of Magritte's approach to "thinking in images," the volume deals with various aspects of the relationship between images and meaning. This relates to the motion of referentiality as devleoped in the UGR grammar.
Jones2021
Jones, Andrew Meirion 2021 “Disentangling Entanglement: Archaeological Encounters with the Concept of Entanglement,” Current Swedish Archaeology 29 (2021), pp. 38–42.
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A short but insightful critique of the current archaeological view of entanglement, with reference to the pertinent philosophical underpinning. It does not relate to the more restricted notion of entanglement used in the UGR grammar.
Hopkinson2023
Hopkinson, B. and G. Buccellati 2023 “The Qraya Salt Experiment. Reenacting Salt Production Processes of Protohistoric Mesopotamia,” in Marius Alexianu, Roxana-Gabriela Curca, Olivier Weller, Ashley Dumas (eds), Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of t.he First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt. 20-24 August 2015. Oxford: Archaeopress 2023, pp. 17-32
Explaining the use of beveled rim bowls for the production of salt accounts for the disappearance of these types of vessels from the inventory of Mesopotamian ceramics after the Protoliterte period, when new ways of producing salt were introduced.
Mardon2021
Mardon, A. (ed.) 2021 A Comprehensive Guide to Stratigraphy. Edmonton (AB): Golden Meteorite Press.
Purported to be an overall review of stratigraphy, it deals only occasionally and incidentally with archaeology, e. g. on p. 79: "To conclude, stratigraphy is a very crucial branch of geology that has enriched our understanding of the geologic characteristics of our planet and continues to have numerous uses in other fields such as archaeology, forensic sciences, and petroleum geology." See also p. 111.
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Alphabetical order
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| 2016 | "Archaeology after Interpretation: Returning Humanity to Archaeological Theory" | |
| Hermeneutics. Heritage | ||
| 2003 | "A Major Change in Archaeological Paradigm" | |
| Epistemics. Principles | ||
Buccellati, F.; Dell’Unto, N.; Forte, M.
| 2005 | “The Tell Mozan/Urkesh Archaeological Project: an Integrated Approach of Spatial Technologies" | |
| Historical development | ||
| 2006 | “On (e)-tic and -emic” | |
| Categorization | ||
| 2006 | “A Browser Edition of the Royal Palace of Urkesh: Principles and Presuppositions” | |
| Historical development | ||
| 2011 | A Structural Grammar of Babylonian | |
| Grammar | ||
| 2017 | A Critique of Archaeological Reason. | |
| . | Conclusion. Record. Theory and practice. Historical development. Constituents properties. | |
| 2017 | “Iconology in the Light of Archaeological Reason” | |
| Historical development. | ||
| 2017 | “Perceptual, Grammatical and Hermeneutical Dimensions of Digitality” | |
| Historical development | ||
Buccellati, G. and M. Kelly-Buccellati
| 1978 | IIMAS Field Encoding Manual (Non-digital). ARTANES 2. | |
| Historical development | ||
| 2008 | "The Ceramics of Urkesh: Statistics for a Browser Edition" | |
| Historical development | ||
| 2026 | "The Density of Types and the Dignity of the Fragment. A Website Approach to Archaeological Typology" | |
| Historical development | ||
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| 2006 | Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy. | |
| Stratigraphy. The concept | ||
| 2026 | Stratigraphy. | |
| Stratigraphy. The concept Stratigraphy. Principles | ||
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| 2021 | "Disentangling Entanglement: Archaeological Encounters with the Concept of Entanglement" | |
| Stratigraphy. Principles | ||
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Hopkinson, B. and G. Buccellati
| 2019 | "The Qraya Salt Experiment. Reenacting Salt Production Processes of Protohistoric Mesopotamia" | |
| Epistemics. Perceptual range | ||
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| 2019 | "Emulation as a Strategy of Urkesh Potters and its Long Term Consequences" | |
| Epistemics. Perceptual range | ||
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B 2006 Conservation
B 2006 Presentation
Buccellati 2012 Linguistic model
B 2017 Critique
Buccellati 2019 Persistence
B 2022 Entanglement
B & mKB ARTANES 2
B mKB 1996 version
B mKB 2020 digital narratives
B mKB 2022 Transformative
B mKB 2024 Balzan Of dirt and People
Delougaz Pottery, see UGR
Miera 2023 Inference and Narration
Snyder and Paley 2001 Experiencing
Svenaeus 2025 Hermeneutics
Tufte 1971 Grammar as style
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