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	Analyse Typologique	Stratigraphie archéologique
Domaine	Méthodes de terrain	Méthodes de terrain
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	Late 19th century (Montelius ~1885); extended broadly through 20th century	Formalized 1973–1979 (Harris Matrix); geological principle applied to archaeology from mid-19th century
Auteur d'origine	Oscar Montelius (seriation/typology in archaeology); formalized across disciplines through 19th–20th c. comparative humanities	Edward C. Harris (Harris Matrix formalization); William Smith (geological law of superposition applied to archaeology, 19th c.)
Type	Classificatory / interpretive method	Field excavation and sequence recording method
Source fondatrice	McKern, W. C. (1939). The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an aid to archaeological culture study. American Antiquity, 4(4), 301–313.	Harris, E. C. (1979). Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy. Academic Press. ISBN: 978-0123264220
Alias	typology construction, artifact typology, type analysis, classificatory typology	stratigraphic excavation, Harris matrix method, stratigraphic sequence analysis, layer-by-layer excavation
Apparentées	6	5
Résumé	Typological analysis is a systematic method for grouping objects, texts, legal categories, or social phenomena into defined types based on shared attributes. Originating in archaeology and linguistics, it is now widely applied across the humanities and social sciences to impose analytical order on diverse corpora, trace historical change, and enable meaningful comparison across cases or cultures.	Archaeological stratigraphy is the systematic excavation and recording of soil layers, deposits, and features at an archaeological site in order to establish the relative chronological sequence of human activity. Grounded in the geological law of superposition — that lower layers are older than those above — it uses the Harris Matrix as a formal tool to map depositional relationships and reconstruct site history layer by layer.