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Chapters
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Table of Contents
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Preface
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1 - Introduction
1.1 The themes
1.1.1 A dual definition of archaeology
1.1.2 Referentiality: grammar and hermeneutics
1.1.3 The value and limits of positivism
1.1.4 Archaeological reason
1.1.5 Structure
1.1.6 Archaeological theory and method
1.1.7 Digitality
1.1.8 Critique
1.2 The argument
1.3 The companion website 
1.4 The public impact
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PART ONE - FUNDAMENTALS
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2 - Archaeology and grammar
2.1 The uniqueness of the discipline: archaeology as archaeology
2.2 A "critical" definition of archaeology
2.2.1 The structural framework
2.2.2 Methodology, method, implementation
2.2.3 Primary and secondary definitions
2.3 Primary definition: inner-referential trace analysis of material cultural remains
2.3.1 The three levels of trace analysis
2.3.2 Distinctiveness of archaeology in terms of the primary definition
2.4 Secondary definition: extra-referential analysis of material cultural remains
2.4.1 Referentiality and temporal distance
2.4.2 Broken traditions
2.5 Approaches to the two definitions
2.5.1 Grammar and hermeneutics
2.5.2 The projection of meaning: archaeology as social science
2.5.3 The appropriation of values: archaeology as humanism
2.5.4 Archaeology and texts
2.6 Grammar
2.6.1 The notion of grammar
2.6.2 Economy and power
2.6.3 Grammar and codes
2.6.4 Shape grammar and grammar of space
2.7 The impact of grammar
2.7.1 Formalization, digitalization, quantification
2.7.2 Capillarity and comprehensiveness
2.7.3 Grammatical underpinnings of a time-bound record
2.8 A theory of excavation44
2.8.1 The intellectual dimension of field work
2.8.2 Observation and inference
2.8.3 Structural archaeology
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3 - Categorization
3.1 Grammar and categorization
3.2 Definition and definitions
3.3 Synchrony and diachrony
3.4 Structural aspects
3.4.1 Closed and open systems: "-emic" and "(e)-tic"
3.4.2 Binary oppositions
3.4.3 Distributional arrays
3.4.4 Paradigms
3,5 Procedures
3.5.1 Trees and nodes
3.5.2 Attribute analysis
3.6 Minimal constituents, morphemes, morphs, allomorphs
3.7 Technique and method
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4 - The search for objectivity
4.1 Objectivity as calibration of perception
4.2 The record: stratification and stratigraphy
4.3 The objectivity of grammar
4.4 Emplacement and deposition: a basic antinomy
4.5 Operational aspects of stratigraphic analysis
4.6 Observation as the foundation of objectivity
4.6.1 Primacy of atomistic observations
4.6.2 Irreplaceability and explicitness of original observations
4.6.3 Precision and accuracy
4.6.4 merit of minimalism
4.7 The nature of strategy
4.7.1 The fluidity of observation
4.7.2 Strategy and tactics
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PART TWO - ANALYSIS
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5 - Stratigraphic analysis
5.1 The nature of stratigraphic analysis
5.2 Emplacement: the overriding significance of contacts
5.2.1 The notion of contiguity
5.2.2 Direct contact
5.2.3 Indirect contacts
5.2.4 Assessment of contacts
5.2.5 In search of laws
5.3 Deposition: time as function of space
5.3.1 An archaeological inference
5.3.2 Emplacement as a clue to deposition
5.3.3 Strata definition and strata assignment
5.3.4 Automatic derivation of strata sequence
5.4 Conceptualization
5.5 Documentation
5.5.1 The nature of documentation
5.5.2 The digital and grammatical dimensions
5.5.3 The basic principles of documentation
5.5.4 The mechanics of the input
5.5.5 The significance of feedback in the input phase
5.6 In praise of theory
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6 - Typological analysis
6.1 The elements: features and items
6.2 Archaeological typology
6.3 Formal analysis of single elements: morphology
6.3.1 Three types of morphological analysis
6.3.2 Principles of compositional analysis
6.3.3 Principles of manufacturing analysis
6.3.4 Principles of functional analysis
6.4 Formal analysis of assemblages: taxonomy
6.4.1 The notion of assemblage
6.4.2 Patterned ordering of attributes within assemblages
6.4.3 Structuring principle
6.4.4 Beyond formal analysis
6.4.5 The coherence of the whole
6.5 Typology and stratigraphy&
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7 - Integrative analysis
7.1 A secondary typological dimension
7.2 The nature of integration
7.2.1 Stratigraphy and typology
7.2.2 Typologies
7.2.3 The cost of integration
7.2.4 Integration vs. juxtaposition
7.2.5 Beyond extrinsicism
7.3 Integrative procedures
7.3.1 Method and technique in relationship to the inventory
7.3.2 An open sensitivity
7.4 Method: inventory specific
7.4.1
7.4.2 Heterogeneous archaeological inventories
7.4.3 Heterogeneous non-archaeological inventories
7.5 Technique: non inventory specific
7.5.1 Techniques as non inventory specific procedures
7.5.2 Science and techniques
7.6 A grammatical approach to style
7.7 Two types of extra-referential integration
7.8 The role of integrative analysis within the Global Record
7.8.1 The creation of the record
7.8.2 The fruition of the record
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PART THREE - THE REASSEMBLED CONSTRUCT
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8 - The invention of a site
8.1 The reconfiguration of the finds
8.2 The physical and referential nature of the record
8.3 The constitutive nature of the record
8.4 The publication as embodiment of the record
8.5 Selectivity and the question of “non-data”
8.6 The great transfer
8.7 The interpretive filters
8.8 The basic presuppositions
8.9 The delay in archaeological publishing
8.10 A definitive publication
8.11 The maieutics of archaeology
8.12 Socially responsible archaeology and the question of identity
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9 - The physical record
9.1 Disposition
9.2 Conservation
9.3 Restoration
9.4 Reconstruction
9.5 Storage of movable items
9.6 Curation
9.7 Access
9.8 The site as a book
9.8.1 Staging the past
9.8.2 Scholarly concerns
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10 - The referential record
10.1 Reassembling the "raw" data
10.2 The fragmented evidence and the sequential argument
10.3 The documentation
10.3.1 The documentary record
10.3.2 Databases
10.3.3 Passive digital publication
10.3.4 Documentary visualization
10.3.5 Statistical elaboration
10.4 The narrative
10.4.1 The textual narrative
10.4.2 Excavation reports
10.4.3 Argument based narratives
10.4.4 Conclusion based narrative
10.5 Perceptual visualization
10.6 Virtual reality
10.7 The stakeholders, proximate and remote
10.8 Public outreach
10.9 The grammatical dimension
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PART FOUR - THE PRIVILEGED VENUE
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11 - Digital thought
11.1 Bracing the distance
11.1.1 The pre-digital phase
11.1.2 The digital innovation
11.1.3 Intentional dislocation
11.2 Structuring the data
Discontiguity
11.2.2 Capillarity of nodes
11.2.3 Integration of arrays
11.3 Structuring the argument
11.3.1 Discontinuity and sequentiality
11.3.2 Multilinear sequences
11.3.3 Polyhedral argument
11.3.4 Non-systemic sequences
11.3.5 Fluidity of structure and deconstruction
11.3.6 Semantic and lexical webs
11.4 The implicit argument
11.4.1 The data base as an argument
11.4.2 The argument function of sorting
11.4.3 The argument function of a word search
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11.5 The narrative argument
11.5.1 Digital discourse, narrative, text
11.5.2 Primary and secondary narrative arguments
11.5.3 Automation: the primary narrative argument
11.5.4 The secondary narrative argument
11.6 Digital humanities and digital humanism
11.6.1 Digital humanities: the technical domain
11.6.2 Digital humanism: the conceptual domain
11.6.3 Perception
11.6.4 The reach of artificial constructs
11.7 The para-digital dimension
11.8 The notion of digital thought
11.9 A historical perspective on digital thought
11.9.1 Orality
11.9.2 From pre-literate to para-literate
11.9.3 Discontinuity and non-linearity
11.9.4 Becoming literate
11.9.5 From the Encycoplédie to digitality
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12 - Digital text
12.1 The notion of digital text
12.2 The reader
12.2.1 Perceptual discontinuity
12.2.2 The persons: user vs. reader
12.2.3 The actions: consulting vs. studying
12.2.4 Hyperlinks – informational and thematic
12.2.5 Reading and digital reading
12.3 The author
12.3.1 Structural discontinuity
12.3.2 The merging of the three levels
12.3.3 The new continuity
12.4 Digital discourse
12.4.1 "One long argument"
12.4.2 Tensionality
12.4.3 Reconfiguration
12.4.4 Centering and grammaticality
12.4.5 Self-declaration
12.5 The heightened perception
12.6 Compositional mechanisms
12.6.1 Pointers to compositional structure
12.6.2 The outer limits
12.6.3 The frame
12.6.4 Titled segmentation
12.6.5 Markers
12.6.6 Hyperlinks
12.6.7 The extended evidentiary base
12.7 Bibliographical status
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13 - The archaeological record
13.1 Archaeological digital thought
13.2 Conceptual digitality of the archaeological data
13.2.1 The primacy of atomism
13.2.2 Finality of the fragment
13.2.3 Quantification and the anchoring bias
13.3 The role of observation
13.3.1 The dynamics of the record
13.3.2 The observation as a structuring moment
13.3.3 The input as argument
13.4 "Ontologies" and the semantic web
13.4.1 Grammatical and hermeneutical aspects
13.4.2 "Ontologies" as grammars
13.4.3 The semantic web as hermeneutics
13.5 An archaeological record in practice
13.5.1 A test case
13.5.2 Global Record and Browser Edition
13.5.3 The semantics of automation
13.5.4 Intrinsic vs. extrinsic integration
13.5.5 Compositional matters
13.5.6 The basal data
13.5.7 The scripts
13.5.8 The dialectics of alternate registers
13.5.9 Interactivity
13.5.10 Globality
13.5.11 Publication
13.5.12 Portability
13.5.13 Bibliographical status
13.5.14 The presentation component of the browser edition
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PART FIVE - THE WIDER FRAME
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14 - The relevance of structure
14.1 Structure
14.2 The Kantian model
14.2.1 The nature of the impact
14.2.2 The organization of my argument
14.3 Tensionality – the Kantian intuition
14.3.1 Introductory
14.3.2 The notion of "bracing"
14.3.3 "Transcendental"
14.3.4 "Critique" and grammar
14.4 Tensionality – the implications
14.4.1 Open and closed structures
14.4.2 The overlay of structural systems
14.4.3 Binary opposition
14.5 Inclusivity – the Kantian intuition
14.5.1 Introductory
14.5.2 "Analytics"
14.5.3 Totality: "unity" and "synthesis" as structure
14.5.4 The constitutive elements: "subdivison" and "dissection"
14.6 Inclusivity –the implications
14.6.1 Univocal relationship among structural elements
14.6.2 Scalarity
14.6.3 Rules
14.6.4 Distributional analysis
14.6.5 Grammatical and inferential structures
14.7 Referentiality – the Kantian intuition
14.7.1 Introductory
14.7.2 Referential levels
14.7.3 A homeostatic system and the external referent
14.7.4 "Metaphysics"
14.7.5 The substantive nature of the referential dimension
14.7.6 "Reason"
14.7.7 "Dialectics"
14.8 Referentiality – the implications
14.8.1 The external referent
14.8.2 Interlocking systems
14.8.3 A world encased
14.8.4 Semiotics
14.9 A systemic cohesiveness
14.10 The Kantian legacy
14.10.1 Three stages
14.10.2 The ultimate impact
14.11 Para-perception and the transcendental revolution
14.12 A critique of "human" reason
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15 - The critical approach
15.1 Reason and "reasons"
15.2 Pure and impure reason
15.3 Critique, "critical theory," metaphysics
15.4 Archaeological data
15.5 Archaeological reason
15.6 A critique of archaeological reason
15.7 A critical approach to archaeology
15.8 Referential levels
15.9 Observation and degrees of inference
15.10 A critical approach to stratigraphy
15.10.1 Excavation
15.10.2 Emplacement
15.10.3 Deposition
15.10.4 Stratigraphy
15.10.5 Other stratigraphies
15.11 A critical approach to typology
15.11.1 The structuring principle
15.11.2 The structured whole
15.11.3 The meeting of two reasons: selection and classification
15.11.4 Classes, types and allotypes
15.11.5 Inventories, assemblages and sampling
15.11.6 A note on terminology
15.11.7 Patterned singularity
15.11.8 Synchrony and diachrony
15.11.9 Patterns of production
15.2 A critical approach to interpretation
15.12.1 The nature of the evidence
15.12.2 An "uncritical" theory of archaeology
15.12.3 The merits of "uncritical theory"
15.12.4 Interpretation and theory of interpretation
15.13 Archaeology and philosophy
15.14 Metaarchaeology
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16 - Hermeneutics
16.1 The question of meaning
16.2 The premise of grammar
16.2.1 Grammar and meaning
16.2.2 Distributional and structural analysis
16.2.3 The urgency of grammar
16.3 Semiotics within hermeneutics
16.3.1 Mending the brokenness: semiotics for a broken tradition
16.3.2 Distribution
16.3.3 Linking
16.3.4 The other side of semiotics: perceptual analysis
16.3.5 Reconstituting perception
16.4 The possibility of meaning
16.4.1 Presuppositions
16.4.2 Clustering
16.4.3 The structural trigger
16.4.4 The hermeneutic risk
16.4.5 Potential grammaticalization
16.4.6 The coherence of the system
16.5 The retrieval of consciousness: cognitive archaeology
16.6 The two hermeneutics
16.6.1 Hermeneutics as invention
16.6.2 Hermeneutics as appropriation
16.6.3 Hermeneutics of broken traditions
16.7 Archaeology and history
16.8 A pre-linguistic hermeneutics
16.8.1 Para-perceptual communication
16.8.2 The autonomy of the referent
16.8.3 Levels of signification
16.9 Academic alignments and intellectual domains
16.9.1 Epoché, empathy, assent
16.9.2 Social sciences and the humanities
16.9.3 "Undiseased by hypothesis": the humanities and theory
16.9.4 Culture and experience: mediation of patterns and immediacy of fruition
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17 - Conclusion
17.1 Archaeological reason
17.2 Grammar and hermeneutics
17.3 Structural archaeology
17.4 Archaeology and linguistics
17.5 Archaeology, digitality and philosophy
17.6 Archaeological reason for a living tradition
17.7 Critique and theory
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