Decision Revise: Speaking Types into Being: Language Acts, Typological Persistence and Performing Archaeological Space. Round#1

by Piraye Hacgzeller (2025) is a contribution to a forthcoming volume on the role of typology and type-thinking in current archaeological theory and praxis.This volume is edited by the recommenders, and Hacgzeller's contribution is recommended based on two independent expert evaluations.A GIS specialist in archaeology, Hacgzeller offers a range of critical reflections on categorization and representation of archaeological space.She illustrates how specific spatial types and categories, in general and the "site" category in particular, shape archaeological praxis, notably spatial analysis and imagination.As rightly stressed by the author, spatial categories suffer from issues of vagueness in their definition that are even greater compared to, say, the categorisations used to handle more obviously bounded objects such as artifacts.