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                "cave art",
                "prehistoric art in Saudi Arabia",
                "prehistoric art in Aruba",
                "prehistoric art in Southeast Asia",
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                "art of the Neolithic",
                "Mesolithic art",
                "prehistoric art in Italy",
                "art of the Middle Paleolithic",
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                "art of the Paleolithic",
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                "prehistoric art in Brazil",
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                    "relay interpretations with attribution",
                    "describe named traditions",
                    "advise on site protection"
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                    "Global distribution",
                    "Dating challenges",
                    "Fragile sites"
                ],
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                    "Prehistoric sculpture, cave art, prehistoric art in Saudi Arabia, Aruba and Southeast Asia, Kurumba painting",
                    "Ancient art of literate cultures is historical; living Indigenous traditions continue today; natural rock patterns are not art"
                ],
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                        "quantity": "Chauvet Cave paintings",
                        "typical_range": "about 36000 years old",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "dating debated"
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Lascaux paintings",
                        "typical_range": "about 17000 years old",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "Sulawesi cave art",
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                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": "attributed to published studies"
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                        "quantity": "Rock Art in the Hail Region UNESCO",
                        "typical_range": "2015",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": ""
                    }
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                    "rock engravings or petroglyphs",
                    "portable sculpture",
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                    "regional rock art traditions"
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                        "relation": "includes",
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                        "why": ""
                    },
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                    },
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                    "UNESCO World Heritage Convention",
                    "National heritage laws protecting rock art sites"
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                    "Presenting disputed dates as settled",
                    "Damage from touching, graffiti or tourism",
                    "Treating living traditions as prehistoric"
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                                        "id": "definition-finding",
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                                                "text": "What is prehistoric art, and how does it differ from ancient art, living Indigenous traditions and natural formations?",
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                                                "text": "Is the question about a site, dating, meaning or visiting responsibly?",
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                                                "text": "What are prehistoric sculpture, cave art and the rock art of Saudi Arabia, Aruba and Southeast Asia, and why is Kurumba painting different?",
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific tradition?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
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                            }
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                                        "id": "methods-finding",
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                                                "text": "How are radiocarbon and uranium-series dating used for rock art?",
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
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                                        "name": "Claims",
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                                                "text": "What are the claims for the oldest cave art in Indonesia and Spain, and how are they debated?",
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
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                            }
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                        "id": "meaning",
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                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
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                                "description": "Theories.",
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                                        "id": "theories-finding",
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                                        "description": "Theories.",
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                                                "text": "How do archaeologists interpret prehistoric art, from hunting magic to shamanism, with positions attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
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                                            {
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                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
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                                        "description": "Sculpture.",
                                        "questions": [
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                                                "text": "What are Venus figurines and the Lion-man?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Venus figurine?",
                                                "kind": "action"
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                            }
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                        "id": "context",
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                                        "questions": [
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                                                "text": "Why were caves such as Lascaux closed and replicated?",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Lascaux?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
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                                    }
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                                                "text": "How do living Indigenous communities relate to rock art today, such as the Kurumba?",
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Kurumba people?",
                                                "kind": "action"
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                "How should dating studies be linked and kept current?",
                "Should regional traditions be separate entries?"
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            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a prehistoric art, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain prehistoric art, relay dating methods, interpretations and major sites from archaeology and art history sources with claims attributed, describe the named regional traditions and flag the living tradition alias, advise against touching or damaging rock art, and distinguish prehistoric art from ancient art of literate civilisations, living Indigenous art traditions and natural rock formations.",
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                "agency": "inert"
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                "read and interpreted"
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: prehistoric sculpture, cave art, prehistoric art in Saudi Arabia, prehistoric art in Aruba, prehistoric art in Southeast Asia, Kurumba painting, portable art, art of the Neolithic, Mesolithic art, prehistoric art in Italy, art of the Middle Paleolithic, Japanese Prehistoric Art.",
                "17 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 54 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a prehistoric art, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "content that has to be carried by something else",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
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            "howItIsRecognised": [],
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                    "relation": "covers",
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                        "cave art",
                        "prehistoric art in Saudi Arabia",
                        "prehistoric art in Aruba",
                        "prehistoric art in Southeast Asia",
                        "Kurumba painting",
                        "portable art",
                        "art of the Neolithic",
                        "Mesolithic art",
                        "prehistoric art in Italy",
                        "art of the Middle Paleolithic",
                        "Japanese Prehistoric Art"
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            ],
            "standing": "Described in 54 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 17 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
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                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                    },
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "content-and-access",
                        "name": "Content, encoding and access",
                        "description": "What a prehistoric art says, how it is encoded and who may read it.",
                        "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "content-and-encoding",
                                "name": "Content and encoding",
                                "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "content-and-format",
                                        "name": "Content, format and language",
                                        "description": "What a prehistoric art contains and in what form it is held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "content-and-format-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "access-and-rights",
                                "name": "Access, rights and retention",
                                "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "access-rules",
                                        "name": "Access rules and retention",
                                        "description": "The permissions attached to a prehistoric art and the period it survives.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes access to a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "access-rules-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "subject-and-method",
                        "name": "Subject matter and method",
                        "description": "What prehistoric art studies and how it establishes anything.",
                        "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "subject",
                                "name": "Subject matter",
                                "description": "The questions it takes as its own.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "subject-record",
                                        "name": "Questions and objects of study",
                                        "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What questions and objects does prehistoric art take as its own?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "subject-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "method",
                                "name": "Method and evidence",
                                "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "method-record",
                                        "name": "Methods and standards of evidence",
                                        "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q01",
                                                "text": "By what methods does prehistoric art establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "method-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "institutions-and-classification",
                        "name": "Institutions and classification",
                        "description": "Where prehistoric art is practised and how catalogues place it.",
                        "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "institutions",
                                "name": "Institutional markers",
                                "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "institution-record",
                                        "name": "Bodies and venues",
                                        "description": "Where the field organises itself.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark prehistoric art as an established field?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "institution-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification",
                                "name": "Classification schemes",
                                "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "classification-record",
                                        "name": "Codes and their disagreements",
                                        "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q01",
                                                "text": "Which classification schemes place prehistoric art, under what codes?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "classification-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a prehistoric art came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a prehistoric art and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a prehistoric art is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a prehistoric art, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a prehistoric art, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a prehistoric art is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}