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

PRINCIPLES

1. Organizing knowledge

CONSTITUENTS
- Introductory
- Nature
- Properties
- Inventory
- Clustering
- Labeling
CATEGORIZATION
ARCHIVE STRUCTURE

2. Acquiring knowledge

Disentangling: the matrix
STRATIGRAPHY
- The concept
- Principles
SPACE
- Emplacement
- Volumetry
TIME
- Deposition
- Chronometry

Structuring: wholes

TYPOLOGY
- The concept
- Principles
MORPHOLOGY
- Concept
- Principles
- Built environment
- Objects
- * Samples
SEMIOTICS
- Concept
- Principles
- Syntax
- Semantics
- Pragmatics

3. Conveying knowledge

Re-structuring: select. wholes

Re-configuring: the record

HERMENEUTICS

REFERENCES
- Introduction
- Lectures
- Publications

Syntax

https://urkesh.org / RECORD / GRAMMAR / i-syntax

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

Structuring wholes. Typology. Semiotics

Syntax

Giorgio Buccellati – April 2026

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