Documenting Two Histories at Once: Digging into Archaeology

In this paper we will give an overview of the ways in which the principles of edition philology have been applied to archaeological texts and archives. We will also discuss what way we may encode the semantic content of a text in order to make it possible to get useful answers to queries as well as to map the information into a formal standard ontology (the CIDOC-CRM). We have used SGML to express the semantic as well as the structural Information of archaeological texts.