Between Variability and Singularity. The book

• The published book
• The preprints
• The peer-reviews and recommendations

The published book

Forthcoming

Plutniak, S., Hussain, S.T. and Riede, F. (eds). 2026. Between Variability and Singularity: Crossing Theoretical, Qualitative and Computer-based Approaches to Types and Typologies in Archaeology. Leiden: Sidestone.

The preprints

The 13 chapters of the book were published as preprints in a Zenodo collection.

1. Giannichedda, E. ‘Research Perspectives and their Influence on Typologies’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7322855.
2. Okumura, M. and Araujo, A.G.M. ‘On the Physics and Metaphysics of Classification in Archaeology’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7515797.
3. Hussain, S.T. ‘The Loss of Typological Innocence: Pluralism in the Epistemology and Ontology of Archaeological Typo-praxis’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14541419.
4. Lucas, G. ‘Archaeology, Typology and Machine Epistemology’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7267833.
5. Leplongeon, A. ‘Tool types and the establishment of the Late Palaeolithic (Later Stone Age) cultural taxonomic system in the Nile Valley’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7708836.
6. Riede, F. ‘The Role of Heritage Databases in Typological Reification: A Case Study from the Final Palaeolithic of Southern Scandinavia’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7560386.
7. Auth, F., Rösler, K., Domscheit, W. and Hofmann, K.P. ‘From Paper to Byte: An Interim Report on the Digital Transformation of Two Thing Editions’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7304578.
8. Buccellati, G. and Kelly-Buccellati, M. ‘The Density of Types and the Dignity of the Fragment: A Website Approach to Archaeological Typology’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7743834.
9. Deligio, C., Nicolai, C. von, Möller, M., Rösler, K., Tietz, J., Krause, R., Hofmann, K.P., Tolle, K. and Wigg-Wolf, D. ‘IT- and Machine Learning-based Methods of Classification: The Cooperative Project ClaReNet (Classification and Representation for Networks)’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7341342.
10. Boissinot, P. ‘What is a form?’ On the Classification of Archaeological Pottery’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10718433/.
11. Iovita, R. ‘A Return to Function as the Basis for Lithic Classification’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7734147.
12. Hacıgüzeller, P. ‘Speaking Types into Being: Language Acts, Typological Persistence and Performing Typological Space’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.18152352.
13. Ribeiro, A. ‘Hypercultural Types: Archaeological Objects in Fast Times’, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.10567441.

The Peer Community in Archaeology peer-reviews and recommendations

The peer-reviews and recommendation text of the chapter were published on the PCI archaeology platform. (Preprint numbers above and recommendation numbers below correspond to each other.)

1. Hussain, S.T., Riede, F. and Plutniak, S. 2023b. ‘Complexity and Purpose – a Pragmatic Approach to the Diversity of Archaeological Classificatory Practice and Typology’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100310.
2. Hussain, S.T., Riede, F. and Plutniak, S. 2024b. ‘The “Beast Within” – Querying the (Cultural Evolutionary) Status of Types in Archaeology’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100318.
3. Plutniak, S. and Riede, F. 2026. ‘A Pluralist Approach to Archaeological Typologies: Addressing Cumbersome Colonial Legacies and Debatable AI Perspectives’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100459.
4. Hussain, S.T., Riede, F. and Plutniak, S. 2023a. ‘Automation and Novelty – Archaeocomputational Typo-Praxis in the Wake of the Third Science Revolution’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100307.
5. Riede, F., Plutniak, S. and Hussain, S.T. 2023b. ‘Cultural Taxonomic Systems and the Late Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age Prehistory of the Nile Valley – a Critical Review’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100321.
6. Plutniak, S. and Hussain, S.T. 2026. ‘Data Infrastructures and their Consequences for Scientific Thought: A Case Study from Prehistoric Archaeology in 20th-century Denmark’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100319.
7. Riede, F., Hussain, S.T. and Plutniak, S. 2023a. ‘Revitalising Archaeological Corpus Publications Through Digitisation – the Corpus Der Römischen Funde Im Europäischen Barbaricum and the Conspectus Formarum Terrae Sigillatae Modo Confectae as Exemplary Cases’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100308.
8. Hussain, S.T., Plutniak, S. and Riede, F. 2023. ‘Roster and Lexicon – a Radical Digital-Dialogical Approach to Questions of Typology and Categorization in Archaeology’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100324.
9. Riede, F., Plutniak, S. and Hussain, S.T. 2024. ‘Humans, Machines, and the Classification of Celtic Coinage – the ClaReNet Project’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100313.
10. Hussain, S.T., Plutniak, S. and Riede, F. 2024a. ‘Abstract and Concrete – Querying the Metaphysics and Geometry of Pottery Classification’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100314.
11. Plutniak, S., Riede, F. and Hussain, S.T. 2024. ‘Using Insights from Psychology and Primatology to Reconsider Function in Lithic Typologies’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100322.
12. Plutniak, S., Riede, F. and Hussain, S.T. 2026. ‘Categorizing Spatial Entities in Archaeology: A Speech Act Approach’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100545.
13. Hussain, S.T., Riede, F. and Plutniak, S. 2024c. ‘The Postmodern Predicament of Type-Thinking in Archaeology’, doi: 10.24072/pci.archaeo.100460.

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