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Emplacement

Giorgio Buccellati – May 2024

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Stationary elements and contact associations

Emplacement refers to discrete physical elements as they appear when excavated, independently of any subsequent typological understanding. We focus here on stationary elements, in the four distinct categories described in the principles of stratigraphic analysis.

While elements are defined statically, they are seen dnamically in relationship to each other, depending on the contact associations which they exhibit in the ground, as defined by ten possible verbs.

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General statistics: elements

A15 A16   MZS
typetotalpercent   total percent   total
1.horizontal surfaces
   (floors, pavements)
8614% 26 9% 112
2.layering or gradual build-up
   (accumulations, layers)
23640% 166 56% 402
3.amorphous amassment
   (fill, gully)
488% 59 20% 107
4.ordered aggregation
   (walls, installations)
22337% 47 16% 270
593 298 891


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General statistics: contact associations

A15   A16 MZS
verbtotalpercent   total percent total
1acuts31%   98 14%   101
1bintrudes184%   2 0.3% 20
2aleans against00%   0 0% 0
2brests on205%   21 3% 41
3aabuts10225%   166 24% 268
3bbonds00%   14 2% 14
4acovers16140%   328 47% 489
4boverlays5413%   34 5% 88
5acaps00%   0 0% 0
5bsits in4712%   36 5% 83
405   699 1104

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